![]() ![]() But the messier one was truer-indeed, the messier one might well have lent explanatory power to the simple story I chose to tell. Better to tell a neater story, I reasoned, than attempt the messier one and have to contend with editors I did not then know. He now sees his decision to keep the essay focused on Cosby’s lecture tour-a tour in which Cosby criticized and was generally condescending to young black men-as a weakness borne primarily of the point he was at in his writing career: I had never written for such a prestigious national publication. ![]() He had been assigned by The Atlantic to write a profile of Bill Cosby, and though this was before rape allegations ended Cosby’s career, Coates admits he had heard rumors. ![]() In the introduction to the new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power, Coates describes his dissatisfaction with the essay he is introducing. His book knits his work as a writer with his understanding of American history. ![]()
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