SPECIAL EDITION - Kmele Foster: Let's have an authentic racial reckoning.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On Friday June 27th, Tangle's newest member, Editor-at-large Kmele Foster released his first written piece. Kmele’s essay tackles America’s 2020 racial reckoning and describes his philosophy about the country’s racial movements. It's a thought provoking, vulnerable, and engaging piece that has invited a lot of comments, questions, and feedback. Many people asked us to make a podcast version of his piece and Kmele was graciously willing to record it.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and today's episode is something a little special. |
| 0:31.7 | It is a Friday edition turned into a podcast for our listeners here. For those of you have been listening for a while, |
| 0:41.4 | you know, if you're a podcast listener, you know that we have brought on Camille Foster as |
| 0:46.6 | editor at large. You've probably heard him a number of times on our Sunday, soon to be Friday |
| 0:52.5 | podcast that is as yet unnamed. |
| 0:57.0 | Camille, I think if you have heard him come on the show, you know he is an incredibly deep thinker, a thoughtful guy who has some kind of heterodox and out there, interesting alternative views on stuff and sees things with a really fascinating lens. |
| 1:13.7 | It's one of the reasons I was so excited to hire him and bring him on to the team. |
| 1:18.3 | As you know, if you're familiar with his work at all, one of the spaces where his views are |
| 1:23.1 | most interesting to me, at least, and certainly most controversial, I think, to wider audiences |
| 1:28.8 | are on race and the intersection of identity politics and national politics and race. |
| 1:36.3 | And I nudged him to make a debut piece about some of his views, kind of in that lane, |
| 1:42.8 | because I know it's something that he's really |
| 1:44.1 | well known for, it's something he's writing a book about, and he did not disappoint, is what I'll say. |
| 1:50.0 | So he published a piece last week in the newsletter titled, Let's Have an Authentic Racial Reckoning, |
| 1:56.6 | and the subhead of it was Who Made Me Black and Why? |
| 2:00.4 | I don't want to say that this is some kind |
| 2:03.0 | of manifesto for Camille's views on race, but I think it's a great starter pack to understand |
| 2:10.5 | the way that he sees the world related to race. It's a really great piece. So we asked him to do |
| 2:16.6 | a reading of it for the newsletter, the same way I might do a reading of a Friday edition. |
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