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Pierce writes: "In which Brooks discusses his reactions to Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book and shares what he learned (or didn't) about the black male experience and race relations in America."

David Brooks. (photo: Getty)
David Brooks. (photo: Getty)


David Brooks' American Dream

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

24 July 15

 

In which Brooks discusses his reactions to Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book and shares what he learned (or didn't) about the black male experience and race relations in America.

ere at the Cafe, we'd been putting on extra staff and gathering extra supplies in anticipation of the release of Ta-Nehisi Coates's book because we are not stupid here at the Cafe and we know how a dinner rush is built. What we did not anticipate is that David Brooks would shove his way to the front of the line.

This dream is a secular faith that has unified people across every known divide. It has unleashed ennobling energies and mobilized heroic social reform movements. By dissolving the dream under the acid of an excessive realism, you trap generations in the past and destroy the guiding star that points to a better future.

​That is one helluva passage right there. The dream is a faith but Coates can dissolve it with acid and destroy a star at the same time you are trapping generations. (What? No gom jabbar? I'm crushed.) I feel like I've been sentenced to the metaphor Phantom Zone with no hope of parole.

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