Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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Listen, January 6th wasn't just an attempted coup.
Like it was an attempt to overthrow Trump.
the democratic, you know, will of a lot of white people, actually.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it was like, like there were white cops who got beat up, you know?
And like, you know, just as a matter of basic truth, I think it's important to say that.
For politicians, it's probably even more important to say it.
But I think as a basic truth, it's like, it's really important to speak in that way, not, you know, because it's accurate first and foremost, right?
You know, but like the damage to this democracy that's been done, which will not be healed quickly.
The damage that was done by Doge, which will not be healed quickly.
Yes, white supremacy is an explanatory force for how this was able to happen.
But the notion that somehow white people are immune to it is just not.
I mean, I feel bad for him a little bit, you know, because as I think my way through it, you know, I think I'm kind of being a little too hard on him.
Are you?
mindset happening you know a lot of times i have good intentions and it's not right you know the worst people the white supremacists are worst but like we gotta you gotta self-critique i'm with you i'm with you i don't disagree with the critique i don't disagree i don't disagree with the critique it's not it's not a thing i would first of all right and it's certainly not a thing i would advise a politician to say having said that i often find
one of the privileges of any, you know, for any sort of group is that ignorance, right?
Like, like ignorance of other people.
Okay.
Like when you are, regardless of, you know, whether you're gay, regardless of whether you're black, regardless of whether you're a woman, you have to know the people who, you know, rule things and run shit.
Like you have to know their culture and their history better than they have to know yours.
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