Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
The dude who sang, "If we can't make babies, maybe we can make some time" (a great, great line by the way) is anti-gay. I think Andrew is drawing a bizarre line between Prince's homophobia and Prop 8 and black people. In the 80s, Madonna wanted to be black more than Prince. Isn't he a Jehovah's Witness? Doesn't that likely have a lot more to do with his beliefs than being black?
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More
Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore -- not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-'90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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