Admirably Adamantine

Monday, August 3rd, 2015

After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent biography, Steve Sailer quipped, “Despite all the violence Coates has suffered at the hands of other blacks, his racial loyalty remains admirably adamantine,” and commenter ABD replied:

I get the sense that there is a lot of psychic stress experienced by the Talented Tenth, i.e. bourgeois middle-class blacks like Ta-Nahesi Coates. They basically live among white people according to white norms, but this creates in them a need to “keep it real” by defending and excusing the dysfunction of underclass blacks. It’s like how the most anti-colonial element of society in the former European empires was the Westernized native elite rather than traditionalist tribal elders.

In a saner world, the Talented Tenth would have an aristocratic attitude of protective paternalism toward black proles, in the spirit of Booker Washington. In actuality, black ethnocentrism, despite being a fundamentally conservative trait, gets filtered through the ideology of the white liberals who run post-white America.

So instead of straightforward tribal noblesse oblige, gentry blacks like TNC (and Obama) live by the fundamentally dishonest and passive-aggressive code of leftism: all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. They lie that D’Shawntavious is their social equal, and the implausibility of that claim means they have to lie again by claiming that Whitey is a wrecker.

I actually kind of pity middle-class blacks who wish to be champions of their people even as they operate within an ideological framework created by leftists who despise their own people.

Comments

  1. Ross says:

    Supposed to be paternal, but instead supporting his peeps on the left despite all the violence on his person?

    So….he’s a cuckservative?

  2. It’s hard work reading through those comments, but then you find Paleo Retiree:

    “Does anybody know how TNC got his break? Who picked him out of obscurity and started putting his thoughts and his words out there in the mainstream? How did he go from being a nobody to being a featured somebody?”

    As we used to say in school, “What he said.” The questions are more interesting than the answers.

  3. “It’s like how the most anti-colonial element of society in the former European empires was the Westernized native elite rather than traditionalist tribal elders.”

    That’s an interesting comment by ABN and it seems like something that would fall into the Isegoria realm of curiosity.

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