Ta-Nehisi Coates

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122 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 29 Oct

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What is their role in the lack of a Palestinian?

I have a very, very, very, very moral opinion.

compass about this.

And again, perhaps it's because of my ancestry.

Either apartheid is right or it's wrong.

It's really, really simple.

Either what I saw was right or it's wrong.

I am, for instance, against the death penalty.

What the person did to get the death penalty, it really doesn't matter to me.

I don't care if they were selling a nickel bag of marijuana or if they were a serial killer.

I am against the death penalty.

I am against a state that discriminates against people on the basis of ethnicity.

I'm against that.

There is nothing the Palestinians could do.

that would make that okay for me.

My book is not based on the hyper-morality of the Palestinian people.

Less than 20 seconds.

I want people to read the book.

And I don't make the assumption that somebody would just read the book and have read nothing else about Israel and Palestine.

You're still invited to High Holidays.

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