Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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Right.
And so what that means, you know, when you talk about race is people,
white people suddenly become aware of things.
You know what I mean?
And it's like, holy shit, this was all around me?
And I didn't realize this.
And you know what I mean?
You say, okay, so how do I talk about this?
And maybe you don't always have, A, there's no guarantee you're going to have the best people around to help you talk about it.
B, you know, you yourself, you know, don't necessarily have, you know, the vocabulary to articulate it.
And so I just, I guess the reason why I want to be easier on them is because
Tim, he was trying to figure it out.
What do you think he should have done?
Like, how do you, like, okay, so I just want, if you switch places with him, right?
So he's just, he's figuring out, like you want to, like Ahmaud Arbery's been killed.
And you are not, it is only within, you know, the recent history of your life that you have started to see these black people killed on camera and just shocked.
You're like, oh my God, the cops do this?
Like, how do you, how do you speak to it?
And then at the same time, you know.
For those of us who are within that woke movement, I still use the word, so I put myself in it.
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