For those of you who want to get a running start on the reading for Thursday, please go to this link.

You will find there an article in The Atlantic, one of the more important and prominent national magazines, by Ta-Nehisi Coates that examines some of the issues we’ve been discussing in class. This essay advances an argument, and so you’ll want to follow that argument carefully, tracing the steps in its development and assessing the evidence marshaled in support of it.