Ta-Nehisi Coates
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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And it was constant for my grandparents.
And now here we are with, you know, and I don't have the stat, you know, in front of me, but, you know, with the killing of the largest amount of children, you know, of any war, you know, in the 21st century.
And I see all of y'all waving these flags for Ukraine.
And then it's me and I can't even speak at the convention.
Like, where am I in this party?
Where is my life?
Where are the lives of my family members?
And in this case, look, I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Kamala was the right choice.
But I feel like I can also say that and say, we got to do a better job.
Like we have to do a better job making people feel like we see their humanity.
And I don't think we did a good one.
Can we go back to something that I'm interested in?
Because I'm not interested in this because I necessarily think you're wrong.
You may well be right, man.
And so I just want to start with that because I don't have a real answer to this.
But I want to go back to this, the extent to which things can get better.
It's not some of this, the fact that, you know, and I don't mean it's any sort of pie in the sky sort of way, but that in other democracies, not every other democracy, but certainly in other democracies, you're not necessarily, you know, put into not just two parties, but a presidential system that is not really representative of, you know what I mean, of everybody in the country equally because of how, you know, the Electoral College and how...
I just think if some of those structural things were different, I think people might feel differently about, about, about their politics and about their vote.
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