Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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Hey, hey, thanks for having me.
I hate when people do that.
You don't even got to list any of the books, honestly.
Does he watch this show?
The president?
If he does, I have to...
Yes, I have to tailor my remarks.
no i bet he does listen this this is this is this is his sort of podcast actually kind of which is why it's upsetting he's not on i agree with you right no this is a sweet spot man do i have what was the question again updated legacy thoughts and he's opening the library oh yeah no i mean my my thing on him is is pretty much you know what it was at the time and it was that um only like
Barack Obama could have been the first black president.
Only somebody like him could have been the first black president.
And what I mean by that is someone who had the kind of historical background wherein they had been in intimate spaces
with a white parent, white grandparents who had treated him as equal, who were not racist themselves.
And I guess he would say extended white family also.
Raised in Hawaii, which is not to say that Hawaii is like a non-racist paradise, but certainly a place.
I've been to Hawaii and the black-white dynamic is not the major thing going on there.
You know, as it would have been in Chicago, you know, had he been raised there.
And so what I've thought is that that just gave him a very, very different perspective, you know, and allowed him to see the best in, you know, the largest voting population in this country.
I think he communicated that.
And I think there really was no other way that you were going to see a black president.
Unfortunately, I think the downside of that was I don't think he could have imagined the past 10 years.
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