Ta-Nehisi Coates
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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He himself says that.
And so Gaza was a lot of other things besides this, but certainly dumb is one of those.
You know, and so in that respect, I think we let ourselves off a little easy.
And I think it's easier to accept.
Like when you when you talk about like the narrative changing, it's easier to see it with Trump because he's so profane.
You know what I mean?
And brags about, you know, violence.
That's right.
That's right.
And so I think that makes it a lot easier for people to see certain things.
So I was there in 24.
And what I was aware of immediately was the fact that, you know, Fannie Lou Hamer was being praised and, you know, everybody, you know, she was on everybody's lips.
But what I remembered is that actually the Democratic Party did not, you know, ultimately ceded a segregated delegation and did not allow her integrated delegation to be ceded.
That was the end result.
In 64, excuse me, of the struggle in 64, that the Democratic Party actually didn't do the right thing.
And the reasons why it did not do the right thing is because Johnson was deeply afraid of losing the Deep South, which he ultimately did, by the way, or many of the states in the Deep South, I should say it like that.
And then at the same time, you know, I was watching this group of Palestinian Democrats and people who are sympathetic to, you know, the Palestinian cause.
They're
who were not asking for delegates to be seated.
Many of them were already delegates, but were asking for a speaker.
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