But Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will not dance.He tells kids to study—and they seethe. He accepts an apology for an immature act of rudeness—and they go hysterical. He takes his wife out for a date—and their veins bulge. His humanity, his ordinary blackness, is killing them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Flip and Pop My Collar Like The Fonz” (via britticisms)
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