Tag: Tressie McMillan Cottom

  • The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America The Atlantic 2016-12-13 Tressie McMillan Cottom, Assistant Professor of Sociology Virginia Commonwealth University The president’s optimism about race blinded him to the pervasiveness and stubborn persistence of racism. I screamed a lot while reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s My President Was Black. When I was done reading and screaming,…