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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Get snatched or to watch like somebody's grandfather, you know, dragged out the house.
And people tend to respond to that, which, by the way, makes the need for what you were talking about at the beginning.
That's kind of why you need the other story.
But you need something to overcome that, that basic, you know, human sympathy.
Can I just say one other thing, even if I get an elongated answer?
I don't want to valorize anybody's death or anybody's killing, certainly, and I don't want to valorize martyrdom, but I will tell you, man, to see models of what I can only call good white folk has been really, really, really, really beautiful.
I think...
Sometimes, sometimes people who I agree with, people who are on my side of politics, sometimes, and I understand why we get exhausted.
We don't wanna explain things to people.
We don't wanna have to sit people down and have conversations.
Well, it's pretty clear some of those conversations have taken place.
And it's pretty clear that you have a population of people, a diverse population of people
who have become woke in the best, best, best possible sense.
And modeling that, modeling that for other white people so that it takes us away from telling, you know, me telling you what you're not doing.
Like the negativity of that, the anger where I'm always like wagging my finger at you.
You know, like white man, listen.
Like it's kind of been beautiful to have another conversation.
Well, some people like it.
Some people, let me be honest.
Some people take it.
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