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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Let me say, what I'm hearing, I think, is maybe discomfort.
maybe even an annoyance with some of the vocabulary that came out of that period of time.
Yeah.
Would that sound right?
Some of the ways of talking?
So Tim, I have a request of you.
Okay, great, man.
One of the things that I think is worth thinking about is, look, I'm a writer.
And what that means to me is I try to write and speak as clearly as possible.
And so I don't really want you making apologies for your privilege to me either.
You know, I want to get down to business.
You know, like I don't I don't need to hear that.
I don't need to hear how guilty you feel like that.
That is sort of beside the point for me.
Like, I don't I don't have a desire to get that.
out of you, you know?
But I do think that in mass, white people in this country do not have a very, very long history in trying to formulate a vocabulary for how to talk about these things.
And I think in the course of formulating that vocabulary, people will make mistakes.
People will make mistakes.
And there will be language that, you know, we used, you know, three or four years ago that we decide, you know, hey, it don't work.
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