Have We Missed The Message? with Ta-Nehisi Coates

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss his new book about how the stories we tell, and the ones we don’t, shape our realities. They 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I was growing up from good times all the way to fresh prints, I was seeing a different
0:05.0	type of blackness where it wasn't its full complexity.
0:08.4	And so I was like, we've got to get to that.
0:09.8	And then the music filters to us.
0:11.3	And the style filters, the vibe filter.
0:13.3	You get what I'm saying.
0:14.1	I do.
0:14.4	And because it is novel and because it seems to be completely like, you know, devoid of all
0:20.8	conflict and,
0:22.0	and, and, and, and, and, and, and, we aspire to it.
0:25.8	And then I would, I came to America.
0:27.7	And then I met black Americans who were all like, man, I can't wait to get to Africa.
0:30.9	Man, I can't wait.
0:31.8	They're like, man, I got a man.
0:33.4	And I was like, wait, wait, wait.
0:35.8	My cousins were trying to sound like Tupac.
0:38.0	Right, right, right, right.
0:38.8	You know what I mean?
0:39.2	My cousins were trying to come here and you're trying to come here.
0:43.1	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
0:47.2	Tanaasi Coats is not just one of the sharpest and most beautiful writers working today.
0:51.6	Every time he put something out, it seems to shake the world. The case for
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