Martin Luther King Jr., the most powerful adversaries of spectacular apartheid are a team of enlightened white dudes." In the first in a series of opinion pieces he's writing for the New York Times this summer, Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehesi Coates describes the experience of taking his son to see the Cuban Missile Crisis-set X-Men: First Class, an "incredible film" that's "narratively lean, beautifully acted and, at all the right moments, visually stunning," even as it "appeals to an insidious suspension of disbelief the heroic mutants of America, bravely opposing bigotry and fear, are revealed as not so much a spectrum of humankind, but as Eagle Scouts from Mayfield." He calls it "a period piece for our postracial times-in the era of Ella Baker and the Rev.
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