WASHINGTON (Analysis) -- Shortly after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager, the celebrated African-American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: I think the jury basically got it right. The only real eyewitness to the death of Trayvon Martin was the man who killed him.
Vichy Journalism on Steroids: Obama and the New Wave of “All-Good” Black Journalism
Barack Obama has inspired a coterie of black writers who have largely foregone reportage and robust interrogation for a kind of anger management, in an apparent attempt to reassure African-Americans that, despite losing more of their wealth than at any time in history, everything is swell.