Ta-Nehisi Coates and Understanding Racial Disparity (Ep. 18)
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
The Ringer
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome. It's Larry Wilmore, Black on the Air. I am Larry Wilmore, and I'm |
| 0:11.2 | Black on the Air. I always good to be back. Good to be Black on the Air. Thank you for |
| 0:14.6 | listening. Thanks for talking about the show out there. I really appreciate you guys |
| 0:18.0 | treating me, saying how much you enjoy the conversations really means a lot. People that |
| 0:22.6 | still treat about the nightly show believe me. I miss doing that with all the things |
| 0:27.1 | going on to miss you and all that kind of stuff. We have a really, really fun conversation. |
| 0:33.2 | Well, fun is not the right word. It's kind of intense. It's really interesting, fascinating |
| 0:38.6 | conversation with the great Tana Hosse Cotes of the Atlantic magazine. You remember his |
| 0:44.0 | book Between the World of Me? And now he has a new book out. We were eight years in power. |
| 0:48.0 | He talks about the Obama years and frames it in a very interesting way, and is a collection |
| 0:53.3 | of some of his articles. So we had a real good conversation about race and all that kind |
| 0:56.4 | of stuff. And it was great. I think you'll enjoy it. So I don't have a lot to say before |
| 1:01.8 | this one. I am looking forward to next week's conversation. I'm going to have with Gretchen |
| 1:06.4 | Carlson. She has a book called Be fierce. And we're going to talk about sexual harassment, |
| 1:11.3 | sexual assault. And I'll cover the Weinstein thing a little bit in my way. And then |
| 1:15.8 | I have a lot to say about that because you guys know I haven't forgotten about that motherfucker, |
| 1:19.8 | either Bill Cosby. You know, this is a subject that really means a lot to me. So I'm looking forward |
| 1:24.8 | to that conversation next week. I didn't have much to say today, but I have to talk about this |
| 1:32.4 | real quick. This whole Trump Gold Star family thing, the way he is talking about this stuff is |
| 1:41.2 | so offensive, you guys. I was so emotional watching the news last night and looking at this crap. |
| 1:47.6 | And I mean, this man, he's, I think someone called him a soulless coward. That was such a good way |
| 1:53.6 | to describe just his whole relationship to the world. I mean, the fact that we're talking about |
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