Ta-Nehisi Coates
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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Correct.
That's the metaphor?
Racism is the virus.
Yeah, I mean, OK, actually hearing it, I understand a little better.
It's still not what I would say, but for other reasons.
Certainly, I've seen in other discourse that racism is a virus.
OK, let's just start there.
Right.
I actually think the error in that is the notion that white people are immune from it.
Because I actually think one of the most compelling aspects of my heroes and the writers that I've loved and that I've modeled myself after is the notion that nobody gets out of this unscathed.
I mean, look, let me make this very literal for you so that it's not just Ta-Nehisi being nice to white people or whatever, trying to say something nice to Tim or whatever.
I do say nice things.
Listen, I believe that if there were one singular force that I had to identify to explain how Trump becomes president and why he's been president for years, I would tell you white supremacy in a second.
Right.
I would not tell you that white people have been immune from the effects of that.
In fact, I would tell you to count.
I would tell you, actually, it makes us all very, very vulnerable, you know, that it hurts all of us ultimately.
And I don't like I don't mean that symbolically.
I mean that literally like it literally endangers everyone.
It is endangered so much.
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