Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Chris Hayes about his search for the truth in both nonfiction and fiction writing. Aired on 10/01/19.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates On His Debut Novel ‘The Water Dancer’ | All In | MSNBC
Go T!
T:oh…so…fake book?
The Water Dancer is it an expose having to do with the highly salacious Pee Pee Tapes? If so then I’ll take a copy.
Love this interview. Well done!
Great interviews require great guests!
We go from MSNBCannibal gangstalking of the elected President of the USA to some obscure album by somebody I never heard of
Shows much about your intellectual capacity if you’ve never heard of Ta-Nehisi… You should probably educate yourself a bit, it’s for your own good
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Some of the “slaves” sold after Jefferson’s death were his own biological children. Look it up.
Extremely nerdy but I love it when these two gets together. I swear I get an IQ boost by the time I’m done listening to them
I will read this book along with so many other important reads that have come out but the topic of reparations has come up in our contemporary media even as trump has become a wrecking ball in our world. The thing is, how do you do something like reparations? This world is not everyone’s. There are millions of people in this country that think trump is just what the doctor ordered for America. That means a lot of racist thought and racist hate resides in too many of us.
So Coates brought up the topic of reparations a while back in an Atlantic article which I just read. In It, Coates talks about Congressman John Conyers Jr and Conyers’s bill which he introduces every session of Congress for the past 25 years. It’s now called HR 40, the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. TO STUDY REPARATIONS! And we (Congress) won’t even study the topic.
This book is going to be about 18th or 19th century slavery, the experience of it. It will be about what it means to be a slave to the whites in this country. He knows that story well. If racism is a form of xenophobia, which I think it is, and xenophobia is “fear of the other” which I believe resides in our genetic code…how are we going to fix this racist nature of ours? I want that to be a primary task of our nation. We are a flawed nation and we don’t do the work to correct the flaws.