In the BLM era, a vile raving bigot was declared our greatest living ‘public intellectual’.

That man, occasional comic book writer and full-time racist Ta-Nehisi Coates was lavished with every award imaginable for expressing such profound thoughts as the 9/11 firefighters and police officers “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”

Post-BLM, Coates’ star faded along with that of the other professional DEI bigots, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo and Nikole Hannah-Jones. That ‘black superman’ movie has yet to emerge.

But after Oct 7, Ta-Nehisi Coates did decide to go full Hamas. And I mean full Hamas.

His book, The Message, whose aggressive promotion by CBS News probably helped lead to the conflict that broke off Paramount from the woke herd leading to woke outrage, was simply unabashed antisemitism and terrorist propaganda that stood out even by the standards of a media that had normalized both.

After Oct. 7, Coates co-signed a letter which claimed that “on Saturday, after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza.”

Coates denounced Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, as “a grand narrative of conquered ancestors built by their conquering progeny”.

“This putative ‘Jewish democracy’ is, like its American patron, an expansionist power,” Coates sneers, “and every expansionist power needs a good story to justify its plunder.”

The Jews are guilty of “an enormous con”, he storms, their history is “a poorly wrought fairy tale” and a compensation of “violent impotence” for the Holocaust.

This Der Sturmer-esque rant was published by an imprint of Bertelsmann’s Random House, a former Nazi publisher, now publishing the worst woke books.

On his promotion tour, Ta-Nehisi Coates suggested that he would have also killed and raped Jews.

But now, Vanity Fair decided to publish an article by Coates accusing Charlie Kirk of having “reveled in open bigotry.”

The unintentionally hilarious subheader is “By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.”

Trust an open bigot who attacked 9/11 first responders and suggested he would have killed Jews to talk about legacy sanitizing.

Ta-Nehisi Coates knows of what he speaks since he’s the one who openly reveled in bigotry subsidized by his liberal donors and backers. Vanity Fair are the ones that ought to be held accountable for allowing one of the vilest bigots in public life to sanctimoniously smear Charlie Kirk.