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On Being with Krista Tippett

Ta-Nehisi Coates — Imagining a New America

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see their history critically?” he asks. Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He’s with us in a conversation that is joyful, hard, kind, soaring, and down-to-earth all at once. He spoke with Krista as part of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival. This interview originally aired in November 2017.

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And so we must imagine a new country. These are words of the poet, journalist, profite of our

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times, Tana Hasekot. This hour he's with us in a conversation that is joyful and hard and kind,

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direct and soaring and down to earth all at once. I'm Christa Tippett and this is onbearing.

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We spoke at the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival before an audience of 1500 people. It was a beautiful

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cross-section of humanity, black and white, young and old. The Rockefeller Memorial Chapel was

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brimming with energy and the technology didn't play along so we ended up adding an extra microphone

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as the conversation began. Okay so we're going to, it feels kind of all fashion which is kind of

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