Episode 10: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Justice In America
The Appeal
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
For our last episode of the season, we are thrilled to have Ta-Nehisi Coates—an author and journalist who has published some of the most important and incisive work of our time, from A Case for Reparations to Between the World and Me. In 2015, Ta-Nehisi published a piece entitled Mass Incarceration and the Black Family, which looked at the history of mass incarceration and the ways it continues to devastate black communities. We talk to him about race, mass incarceration, his list of suggested reading, and the responsibility of black leaders to address systemic injustice.
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| 0:00.0 | Until people have different fundamental assumptions about their country who has a right to be a citizen of the country who has a right to enjoy |
| 0:13.5 | the full suite of privileges. All of this is, you know, and I don't mean to be too dismissive, |
| 0:17.6 | but in many ways it's choreography. It's not the actual thing. I can articulate a series of responses to make the mythical |
| 0:25.6 | beliefs that I have respectable. But the mythical beliefs are what they are and |
| 0:29.8 | they actually aren't that hard to get to. I mean, you know, we've seen |
| 0:32.3 | you know enough data on what people |
| 0:34.8 | who voted for Donald Trump think about who should be a citizen and who should be, who should |
| 0:40.3 | have access to the Sweden rights that come with that. |
| 0:43.3 | Hey everyone, I'm Josie Duffy Rice and I'm Clint Smith and this is Justice in America. |
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| 1:15.0 | So today is our last episode of season one. |
| 1:19.0 | Oh, man, what a ride. |
| 1:20.0 | We've really, really enjoyed talking to you all about the criminal justice system and |
| 1:25.1 | diving in deeper on all sorts of topics and we'll be back with season two this |
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| 1:37.8 | So at the beginning of this episode, you heard a clip from our guest today, Tanahasi Coates. |
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