How does coates act as either a thought leader or a public intellectual?

Assignment:
In “The First White President,” Ta-Nehisi Coates rails against the way that liberal media and leaders downplay what he sees as the real reason Trump got elected in 2016. He writes, “Few national liberal politicians have shown any recognition that there is something systemic and particular in the relationship between black people and their country that might require specific policy solutions” (33). In this second analytic paper, you will look at how his claim is explained by the ideas that Zuboff and Giridharadas explore in their texts: How might Coates, by working as a public intellectual, demand the promise of a contract that allows all Americans to imagine a future tense?
Some Questions to Consider:
Below are some further questions that may be useful to consider in generating your argument. Remember that you only need to address the above prompt in bold:
How does Coates act as either a thought leader or a public intellectual?
What role has white supremacy played in the history of America?
Why do people focus more on economic inequality than on racial inequality?
Why do people go along with arguments that they do not completely believe or have evidence against?
How does someone come to be a thought-leader?
How might surveillance capitalism limit people’s ability to not conform?
How does American politics encourage people to assimilate?
What sort of synthetic declaration is Coates asking for?
What sort of counter-declaration does he claim he is given instead?
How does the makeup of America resist standardization?
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