Charles Coleman
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4,111 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 2d ago
Charles Coleman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is not a quantifiable way to note that racism and bigotry in Mississippi no longer exists.
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That is certainly not the justification that we need to be using.
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But yes, Don, there are a lot of people who look like me and you who are very, very comfortable
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Jumping to the defense at the expense of a dead black boy, jumping to the defense of a white boy and a white family without with and denigrating.
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You know, I had an argument where.
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that gentleman was saying to me, well, why did they have Al Sharpton do the funeral?
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And I said, because they wanted to, this was something that they chose.
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What are you talking to me about?
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This was that family's choice.
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And so, and so I think that publicly we have to understand and be very clear.
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There's no other way to say this, but, um,
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There's always going to be folks who look like us who are very comfortable tap dancing for white folks because they think it's going to get them a dollar.
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And one of the things that I have sort of had a challenge with in this moment is
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while it is important to seek out other perspectives while it is important to uh give give voice and space for alternative viewpoints what we don't want to do is continue to platform people who have shown themselves to be intellectually disingenuous uh because that that that hurts our credibility right like that detracts from our conversation
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Okay.
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There it is.
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And I think that there are a lot of people who have in that dynamic historically found a way to make it profitable for themselves.
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You think they know?
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Yeah, they know.
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I think they likely have some sort of element of contrarian within them.
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