Ta-Nehisi Coates
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Okay, so here's my problem with that.
Here's my problem with that.
Here's my problem with that.
You can't make an entire movement answer for one book.
You can't even make me as an author answer.
It's like everybody always brings that up.
And I haven't read White for Jilly, so I'm not here or there.
Why does that always come up?
Because it's horrible.
Whoa, whoa, your head is in the right place.
What do you hear?
What are the sort of questions?
What don't you like about what she said?
Just so I can, and I don't love what she said either.
That's probably not what I would ask her to say, but I'm interested in what you don't love about Woodsy.
Okay, so I'll say two things.
I will say that when Renee Goode got killed, the first thing I noticed was her skin color and her gender.
And I noticed it because so much of the way white supremacy constructs itself is in alleged protection of white women.
And I do think it matters.
I really do think it matters.