Ta-Nehisi Coates
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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That's just really, really, really tough.
And, you know, obviously I make no excuse and no quarter for anybody's, you know, racism, bigotry, sexism, transphobia, et cetera.
But I also don't think it had to be this way, you know?
I mean, I agree with you.
I think one of the successes of Minneapolis is that they found a way to do that.
Like they found a way to counter.
It just comes off as basic American decency.
And if my friend Adam Serwer, I should say basic human decency.
That's what I should say.
Did he talk about how like this goes back to like abolition and like how like there's always been this spirit here?
Okay.
All right.
This is Adam's point.
But what Adam would tell you, like, you know, me and him, we talk from time to time.
And when he was first beginning working on his, you know, incredible, incredible piece for the Atlantic, the first thing he said looking at this was it reminded him of abolitionism.
And one of the things that people forget, because like the story of slavery, you know, becomes kind of compressed, is we forget slavery.
In the run up to the Civil War, how many white people were willing to put their bodies on the line to keep their neighbors, as my friend Jelani Cobb says, I'm just name checking now, as my friend Jelani Cobb says, to keep them from being dragged back into, I mean, there were pitched battles in the streets of Boston and Syracuse.
Sometimes these battles, a lot of times these battles were not nonviolent.
And so what I want to say is there is, I think, in the hearts of most people, like just this kind of basic goodness that makes it hard to watch like a five year old.
You know what I mean?
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