https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks by Ta-Nehisi Coates en-us 2022-01-26 18:29:46 UTC 2022-02-08 20:40:40 UTC hello@padlet.com averyplatts https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024398584 * Born September 30, 1975
* Raised in Baltimore, Maryland
* Won National Book Award in Nonfiction with Between the World and Me (2015)
* Wrote a Black Panther (2016-2021) and Captain America (2018-2021) comic series
* Attended Howard University in 1993 but never got a degree
* Wrote his first book in 2008, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
* Recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019
* First Novel The Water Dancer released in 2019
* Father was a librarian and Mother was a teacher
* Won National Magazine Award in 2013 for essay Fear of a Black President and in 2014 for cover story The Case for Reparations


]]> 2022-02-01 22:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024398584 averyplatts https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024398910 In the essay "You Left Out the Part About..." by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he talks about seeing X-Men First Class with his son. The movie was made in 2011 but is set in 1962, but instead of racial tensions being the issue with American society, the public feels threatened after discovering mutants. The author talked about events that happened in real life in 1962 with the civil rights movement going on, and how the movie paralleled with its fictional societal issues. Coates then reminisced the times in history where people pushed under the rug certain unpleasant aspects of the foundation of America and other shameful moments of history. In conclusion, Coates and his son view the movie in different manners, his son just being 10 years old not knowing much of history, and then Coates who has knowledge and experience of the real-life time period and understands how it is all connected.]]> 2022-02-01 22:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024398910 averyplatts https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024404580 Coates talks about how the movie takes place in an alternate universe in the year 1962. In this universe, the biggest threat in society is the uprising of mutants. Coates mentions how in real life in 1962, some events took place during the midst of the Civil Rights movement which was the biggest thing going on in society at the time. Some of the key events he mentioned were the confederate flag being returned to the state capital of South Carolina marking the Civil War centennial, and also that year the University of Mississippi welcomed its first African American student which led to a lethal race riot.
Coates asks at the end of his essay if the mutants of America are black. From the comparisons of how mutants were treated and how blacks were treated in America, they both were feared, treated differently, and not seen as equal. Both were forced into slavery. The extremes for mutants are a little different but what the author is doing is asking a question we all know the answer to which is yes. 
At the end of this essay, Coates' son asks him " who do you think has the coolest power, daddy" and Coates' response is "you do, son". There is significance to what Coates might be meaning when he says "you do" to his son. I believe this power that Coates sees in his son is the ability to appreciate something he does not completely understand and is not troubled with the truth. His son is fascinated with the superheroes and their backstories, whereas the father is more interested in the historical aspect.

]]> 2022-02-01 23:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024404580 averyplatts https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024404704 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ta-Nehisi-Coates. 

Halpern, Gregory. https://ta-nehisicoates.com/ 

https://ta-nehisicoates.com/about/

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/us/politics/07constitution.html

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/09/20/archives-end-dont-ask-dont-tell

https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/obama-announces-death-of-osama-bin-laden-video

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-state-union-address

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1214964.Ta_Nehisi_Coates

]]> 2022-02-01 23:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2024404704 averyplatts https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2025966141 * On January 25, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his 2011 State of the Union Address
* On January  2, 2011, The US Constitution is read aloud on the floor of the US House of Representatives for the first time in history.
*On May 2, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder, and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda was killed 
* First Black American President Barack Obama is still in office in 2011
* September 20, 2011, the US Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned open homosexuality in the armed forces was officially repealed by President Obama ]]> 2022-02-02 17:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/averyplatts/Bookmarks/wish/2025966141