Jonathan Capehart
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373 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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Mick Unplugged · Jonathan Capehart: Lessons in Truth, Connection, and Self-Belief · 14 Aug 2025
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And then when you follow it with Diana Ross singing Home, well, I'm a blubbery mess after that.
But to me, it is the power of those words and that art that, again, you are absolutely right.
If you don't believe in yourself...
you're not going to be able to do anything.
Or as RuPaul says, if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?
It's all mixed in.
So during the first Trump administration, things were not great in the country.
And as an opinion writer who writes about national politics, I mean, it was distressing, dismaying what was happening to the country.
And I needed a break.
And I decided all these stories in my head from my summers down South in North Carolina
12 summers I spent with my maternal grandparents.
My maternal grandmother was a Jehovah's Witness.
So going to Catholic school in the north and then coming down south and going witnessing with my Jehovah's Witness grandmother.
And the things that I saw and the things that I learned and the people I met, those stories...
stayed with me.
They just churned in my head.
And I thought this one particular weekend in 2017, all right, now's the time to stop thinking about these and just getting them down on paper or in pixels on the computer screen.
And I spent all weekend
just writing what became the Down South chapter, which in the book has been split up into two or three separate chapters.
But I sent them, sent the chapters to a bunch of people, but three people in particular were very encouraging.
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