Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Did Kamala Harris’s Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?”

Don’t get distracted by the headline: Coates’ piece on American imperialism, racism, and electoral politics is taking a much, much longer view than the last few years. …a black presidency is a contradiction &thinsp;— &thinsp;it owes its power to a movement against racist state violence at home but seeks an office which has always practiced racist state violence abroad. But what was known in 1964…