‘Charlie Kirk Was a Hate-Monger’: The Comic-Book Worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘Charlie Kirk was a hate-monger’: The comic-book worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Progressive journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates knows how to create a villain — a useful talent for his side gig as a prolific Marvel comics writer. But real life ain’t Wakanda — and when it comes to Charlie Kirk’s legacy, not everyone is sticking to Coates’ simplistic good guys/bad guys script. In Coates’ world, that can only mean they’re “sanitizing” who the slain Turning Point USA leader really was. ‘But if you ask me what the truth of his life was ……

'Charlie Kirk was a hate-monger': The comic-book worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates

A writer for multiple iconic Marvel storylines says pundits and politicians are guilty of 'sanitizing' Charlie Kirk's legacy.