‘You Should Be Afraid’: Ta-Nehisi Coates Sounds Alarm on State Push to Ban 1619 Project

(Via Mediaite)

Journalist and best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates warned against the dangers of the push to ban the 1619 Project — sounding the alarm on state silencing of “discomforting” ideas.

Coates joined the hosts of CBS This Morning on Tuesday, first decrying  UNC-Chapel Hill’s decision to deny Project 1619 founder Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure.

“On the one hand this is clearly about Nikole, who is, to my mind, is among, if not the most, decorated journalist in our profession,” he said, referencing the tenure controversy. “But there is a much bigger debate that’s going on here and it is about what ideas our children, what ideas students at colleges will be exposed to or not.”