Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not most people, but some people online are taking pleasure in that.
I'm the first person that's going to tell the truth, right?
Like, I'll tell you the second, you know what I mean?
What's going on?
But as you said, when you start, I do think there is a human element sometimes that causes people to take pleasure in it that's not great.
I mean, Viola Louisa was a race traitor, man.
She was a race traitor.
What that term means is somebody who decided that the privileges that were given to them because of racism and white supremacy was so offensive to their person that they would put their body on the line to be, you know, to be against this.
You know, we have a history of this.
Me as a journalist, I would shout out Elijah Lovejoy, you know, for instance.
You know, people who died, you know, for this.
It was just too, you know, so offensive.
I mean, Abraham Lincoln ultimately was judged a race traitor, quite frankly.
And Viola Louisa is this...
The white woman who's grown up in poverty, dad is a coal miner, marries this dude who's like a teamster, union activist.
I mean, they're just straight, you know, working class, you know, white people with, you know, no ostensible reason to be conscious save this.
She saw poverty.
And she saw what poverty did to her family, and she saw what it did to Black families around her.
And that allowed for a basic level of recognition and humanity.
And she was inspired by the March on Selma, drove 800 miles from her home,
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