Ta-Nehisi Coates
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Right.
That's how they push her out of it, right?
That's how they push her out of it.
But nonetheless, I do think it matters that white people are putting their bodies on the line.
I guess what I'm detecting from you, and I have heard some of this before.
I'll just tell you.
Let me say, what I'm hearing, I think, is maybe discomfort.
maybe even an annoyance with some of the vocabulary that came out of that period of time.
Yeah.
Would that sound right?
Some of the ways of talking?
So Tim, I have a request of you.
Okay, great, man.
One of the things that I think is worth thinking about is, look, I'm a writer.
And what that means to me is I try to write and speak as clearly as possible.
And so I don't really want you making apologies for your privilege to me either.
You know, I want to get down to business.
You know, like I don't I don't need to hear that.
I don't need to hear how guilty you feel like that.
That is sort of beside the point for me.