David Naimon

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4,074 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 24 Aug

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But you are missing something if you don't, but you don't know you're missing something, which in a way sort of echoes the experience of what you –

miss when you're not taught something.

Uh, so you're sitting in school and you're only hearing one thing and you don't necessarily have the context of what you're, you could be hearing.

Um, I just wanted to hear a little bit about that for you in terms of how you're employing this, um, in, in magical Negro.

you.

That's

Yeah, I think you're right.

Yeah, I wanted to sort of twin this to something that you said in the interview with The Believer, which I just loved.

So The Believer magazine did a series in the shadow of Trump's post-truth presidency, and they asked different writers their relationship to facts.

And you had the most amazing answer when they said, what is a fact to you?

So this is what you said.

Part of my project is to make my own myths.

It's a lot of rewriting and reimagining.

I always say the craziest thing about the transatlantic slave trade is that so much history was lost.

Names, birthdays, every kind of fact.

I was never afforded that historically.

Facts are white.

It almost feels like facts don't belong to me.

So people of color created their own myths.

Facts aren't for me.

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