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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That's what they do.
And then sometimes people disagree.
But the purpose of it isn't to debate.
That's not why it exists.
You understand what I'm saying?
I don't write actually to debate.
You know, sometimes debates will come out of it.
You know, but it's not, I'm not motivated.
It's not the thing.
Like in all of the beautiful places, you know, I worked at the Atlantic for 10 years and it was like home to me.
You know, I worked at Washington City Paper for five years.
It was like home to me.
Did we debate sometimes?
Yes.
Sure.
thing that made it productive was not the debate it was a lot of other things too like you should be in pursuit of stories you should be in pursuit of news that you know moves people and grabs people's attention and when you are in in pursuit of takes i don't know yeah i think it's bad i don't think that's journalism period yeah tim can i say one last thing about cbs
I do want to say that one thing that really bothers me about this is there are people in this world who I guess were upset because somebody told them that they had to add, you know, one more black person to their writer's room or somebody, you know, questioned.
what an intimacy coordinator was doing on the set, or they had to be pulled into some sort of debate about using the wrong pronouns.
And then they decided to empower somebody who is currently destroying one of the jewels of journalism.
And I just think you got to do better.
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