Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Don Lemon Show · Hot Topics with Don Lemon | DID WALZ WIN? - October 2nd, 2024 · 2 Oct 2024 podcast

This is the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

His new book, The Message, is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories we tell or avoid telling can shape and even distort our reality.

In the book, Coates reflects on his emotional first trip to Africa to visit Dakar, Senegal.

Saving the world.

Just to be really specific...

Writing is how we interpret so much of everything that is around us.

Took away the awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away.

Why does Ta-Nehisi Coates, who I've known for a long time, read his work for a long time, very talented, smart guy, leave out so much?

Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it?

Well, I would say the perspective that you just outlined, there is no shortage of that perspective in American media.

That's the first thing I would say.

I am most concerned always with those who don't have a voice, with those who don't have the ability to talk.

I have asked repeatedly in my interviews whether there is a single network mainstream organization in America with a Palestinian American bureau chief or correspondent who actually has a voice to articulate their part of the world.

I've been a reporter for 20 years.

The reporters of those who believe more sympathetically about Israel and its right to exist don't have a problem getting their voice out.

But what I saw in Palestine, what I saw on the West Bank, what I saw in Haifa in Israel, what I saw in the South Hebron Hills, those were the stories that I have not heard.

And those were the stories that I was most occupied with.

I wrote a 260 page book.

It is not a treatise on the entirety of the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

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