A moist, vague moral populism meets New Jack Swing.
To paraphrase Faulkner, it's a hard life on a single black woman for a fact. Or more likely, not so hard. The experience is never as hard, as enduring the self-appointed analysts. Black and otherwise.
Monica Potts has more. So does Michael Eric Dyson.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.