Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
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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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And some of the people that came out of that, you know, who led some of the most noble, you know, struggles in the world, like, became, like, Lyndon LaRouche conspiracy theorists.
Like, it's some crazy people there.
You know what I mean?
Yes.
And then we compare ourselves against this perfect image of what activism was.
And in fact, it was messy.
It was like really, really.
And there were a lot of uncomfortable things.
You know what I mean?
That were going on.
I mean, Fannie Lou Hamer, who is like lionized, you know, by the movement, and should be, and should be, but I'll never forget this quote that she, you know, they had of hers when she's talking about organizing.
And she says, we have to get the damn Toms out the movement.
And it's like, we don't want people calling people Uncle Tom's now.
We don't want to hear that.
But they were saying that back then.
That was part of the vocabulary of things.
And look, I honor them like anybody else, but these were human beings.
And I don't know that we're any worse today.
I think this is what it looks like, which doesn't mean you should not critique it.
That's not what I'm saying.
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