Ta-Nehisi Coates

But they were saying that back then.

That was part of the vocabulary of things.

And look, I honor them like anybody else, but these were human beings.

And I don't know that we're any worse today.

I think this is what it looks like, which doesn't mean you should not critique it.

That's not what I'm saying.

Give white people some grace, man.

That's it.

Okay.

That's it.

Just take, next time you hear that, just take a breath.

The last thing I'll say on this, it is kind of frustrating to people like me in the sense that I don't expect everybody to agree with everything I say, but for that article I just wrote, dude, it took me three days sitting there trying to define what the homeland was.

I felt what it was, but I couldn't.

I was just writing over and over again the same three paragraphs until I got to the thing, to what it was.

I'm telling you, I have to tell you, some of us are working really, really hard, really, really hard and investing a lot of energy.

And we don't want to have to...

answer for other people's books.

You know what I mean?

Who, you know, maybe, I don't know.

I don't wear white fertility, so.