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Have We Missed The Message? with Ta-Nehisi Coates | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast

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Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins myself and Christiana to discuss his new book about how the stories we tell, and the ones we don’t, shape our realities. We also unpack the jaw-dropping CBS interview that followed the book’s release, and our elusive search as a people to see the humanity in others.

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@WhatNowPodcast 1 year ago (edited) Pinned

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@jalebkhan 1 year ago

“…that book would fit in the backpack of somebody who truly sees other people as human beings first and foremost”

@muhammadyousef7965 1 year ago

From a Palestinian American, who grew up in Palestine but lucky enough to escape the horrors now living in America, thank you for this interview. I have cried almost daily for the past year, but this is one of the first times I had tears of joy. Thank you for that.

@bananaslugdragon5764 1 year ago

This conversation went to so many places. THIS is how to talk to our fellow humans.

@davidvartanian 1 year ago

This country immunizes us from thinking critically and feeling angry about injustice. CNN just posted an article today with the headline like: “No Food has entered Gaza in October…” Does the food have agency? Why is the food choosing not to go into Gaza? It’s ridiculous how much our govt and corporate media shield us from seeing why things are the way they are.

@azarath318 1 year ago

Came for Ta-Nehisi Coates' and Trevor's discussion on Palestine, stayed for a surprisingly moving conversation about blackness and Black identity.

@herstorylives7405 1 year ago (edited)

I visited Israel and the West Bank in the 1990s. I experience exactly what Mr. Coates writes about The Message. I felt and saw the Jim Crow system there, and Israel oppression of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people are facing (have faced) far worse treatment, segregation, and oppression since the 1990s. I grew up under Jim Crow and segregation in a racist Georgia. I know oppression and a Jim Crow system when I feel it and see it. POWERFUL AND ENLIGHTENING CONVERSATION! Love it!! "This is my Black podcast!"....love it!

@Nishful5 1 year ago

Trevor Noah’s question “What about the taxi driver?” got me. I’m ashamed to say I never thought about the innocent driver who gets k111ed as collateral damage and yet how many family members/people are dependent on him/her? How many people are you devastating when you thoughtlessly kill this one innocent person? Thanks Trevor. ✊

@leesmeereads2much 1 year ago

Love that Last note from Trevor , if everything was removed the book would be in the backpack of someone who sees humanity.

@shimos6308 1 year ago

Respect to everyone who is still a human defending humanity

@panoptos4163 1 year ago

The man is a treasure to humanity. He speaks to the issues of our era the same way I imagine James Baldwin spoke to the issues of his own time.

@RealLodoss 1 year ago

As a muslim immigrant growing up in America, I always felt welcome by the African American community. I never understood why until I learned about the US history.

@nurainiarsad7395 1 year ago

i don’t cry easily but when i went to south Africa and visited the museums, i cried. in public. especially at roebben island. like big ass tears on my face, i couldn’t stop it, when i learned the details of what apartheid was in south africa. and i know that there are many who won’t understand why i grieved.

@AP-pp8ji 1 year ago

From a dark skinned Tamil Indian born in the Middle East, and brought up in the UK, this was a very valuable conversation for me to listen into

@JFitzScott3rd 1 year ago

“This is my black podcast!” God I’m loving Trevor Noah’s and Ta-Nehisi’s fearless conversation. Let’s protect and embrace these men using their platforms to open eyes that have been closed for so long.

@OpenMindedForever 1 year ago

One of the best authentic, humble, fact-based, humane, multicultural, introspective, and non-grifter interviews, dialogues -- and astute perspectives! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! TNC, Christiane, Trevor!

@sunnypop10 1 year ago

Thank you Ta-Nehisi for speaking up for Palestinians!

@thegatheringofthescattered5673 1 year ago

I am smarter coming out of this conversation than I was walking into it. Thank you.

@Reflection-y2r 1 year ago (edited)

Mr. Coates during that CBS interview, it reminded me of what taking control and being superior looks like. The interviewer from CBS stated, "Stip your name, your acolytes, and all that is you. Then he call you extremist."
The same thing is done when a person is enslaved. Strip a person of their name, their culture, and their humanity. Then rename them, never give them their humanity back, and then codify it so no matter where they go people will know not to treat them humanely because it will be law.

@janellepascall9547 1 year ago

Trevor and Ta-Nehisi are great as usual but there is something so special about Christiana. Her insight, thoughtfulness and the eloquent way she expresses herself blows me away. I'm in awe of her mind. Her explanation of bleaching really connected thoughts I had floating in my mind but never really put together. A genius