Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Bulwark Daily · Ta-Nehisi Coates: Obama's Legacy in a Trump World · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And I can't give a verdict on whether they would have won her the election.

But I do want to say this.

There are some things worth losing for.

And there are some things that people will remember you differently when you lose for them.

And I just think that had Kamala Harris lost, and that was certainly a possibility,

Simply because she echoed and stated the beliefs as they were communicated to me, I think people would think about, and I'm just not solely talking about Palestinian Americans, I think the party would think about her a lot differently in this moment.

Yeah, I mean, look, I voted for it, you know what I mean?

And I told people and I went in front of, you know, majority Muslim and Arab American audiences and had to explain myself, which I did, which I did.

And pretty much what I said is, look, we, you know, as black Americans in general have not had the luxury of voting in presidential elections for people that, you know, we felt fully saw our humanity.

And that is just what it's been for us.

Having said that, I'll never forget, man, I was in, and this is not the only time this happened, but I was in Houston, Texas, and I was with a group of Palestinian Americans, very, very accomplished group, by the way.

And the woman's house who was hosting me, beautiful, large, large mansion.

And she sat next to me.

She said, you know, I'm from Gaza.

200 members of my family have been killed.

Um, and she said, I don't go outside anymore.

I don't, I don't talk to my neighbors about this because they think it's right that my family be killed.

I think there are two separate questions.

There's one question for, you know, people like me, um, about like what we should have done with our vote.

And the answer to that, to, uh, you know, for that to me is very, very clear.

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