{"id":3653,"date":"2016-06-23T19:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T19:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2016-06-23T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T19:20:24","slug":"the-playboy-interview-with-ta-nehisi-coates-playboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/the-playboy-interview-with-ta-nehisi-coates-playboy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Playboy Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates | Playboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/playboy-interview-ta-nehisi-coates\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/c_limit2Cq_802Cw_6242Fhttp3A2F2Fimages-origin.playboy.com2Fogz4nxetbde62F17p7oCiIRSooUKkoQqEEm62F70a2474e779c78975710ce899d6c6b422F02_textwrap.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Great interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Although it&#8217;s hardly\u00a0a\u00a0central theme of the interview, I really appreciated his comment on Obama:]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How would you describe the eight years of Obama\u2019s presidency?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I think he did a tremendous job, and I say that with all my criticism of how he talks about black folks and how he talks <em>to<\/em> black folks. I say that with all my criticism of the morality or the lack of morality in terms of drone warfare. You\u2019re not voting for a civil rights leader; you\u2019re voting for a president of the United States within the boundaries of what presidents do. And within the boundaries of what presidents do, he\u2019s easily the greatest president in my lifetime. I don\u2019t think people understand what he had to navigate. It\u2019s a hard job already. You\u2019ve got people on TV\u2014and this is just the small end of it\u2014on the internet, everywhere, sending out pictures of you and your wife looking like apes. You\u2019ve got officials in the opposing party e-mailing pictures of watermelon patches in front of the White House. You have an opposition party where somewhere on the order of 50 or 60 percent don\u2019t think you are legally president. You\u2019re giving the State of the Union address and some white dude from South Carolina stands up and yells, \u201cYou lie.\u201d Just open, blatant disrespect. You say the most sensible things in the world and people lose their mind, almost scuttling your top agenda in terms of legislation. You\u2019ve got to be a certain motherfucker to be able to manage all that in your head. Their leading presidential candidate right now is the person who claimed our president was born somewhere else and asked to see his grades. You\u2019re dealing with a party where racism is a significant undercurrent. I mean, whew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/playboy-interview-ta-nehisi-coates\">The Playboy Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates | Playboy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Great interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Although it&#8217;s hardly\u00a0a\u00a0central theme of the interview, I really appreciated his comment on Obama:] How would you describe the eight years of Obama\u2019s presidency? I think he did a tremendous job, and I say that with all my criticism of how he talks about black folks and how he talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-WV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}