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Today Michael Brooks joins us to discuss various topics recently in the notes, including the ongoing debate between Ta-Nehisi Coates and various figures on the left and identity issues vs. class issues in general.

Michael Brooks is host of The Michael Brooks Show https://www.patreon.com/TMBS, co-host of the Majority Report, co-host of 2 Dope Boys & a Podcast, his writing has appeared in Jacobin, Baffler, Open Democracy and the Washington Post. Follow him here https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks

Discussed in this episode:

* My recent appearance on The Michael Brooks Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1B5A4nV-rE

* "How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power by Thomas Chatterton Williams https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-whiteness-power.html

* "Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Us" by Douglas Williams https://thesouthlawn.org/2017/10/09/between-ta-nehisi-coates-and-us/

* Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro http://amzn.to/2yD97O6