Ta-Nehisi Coates - "My President Was Black"
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Barack Obama's presidency in The Atlantic's cover story "My President Was Black." Originally aired December 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.6 | Ow! |
| 0:04.0 | Please welcome, Tata Asik Holtz. |
| 0:06.6 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
| 0:08.6 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:11.6 | See I gave you the black hair shake. |
| 0:13.2 | The black dude. You know what I saw, funny, is? |
| 0:15.2 | You wrote about that in the... I was reading the piece last night and I was like, oh, man, I didn't even... |
| 0:25.8 | It's just a moment in time where you go Barack Obama straddles two lines. |
| 0:30.4 | You know where he is, yes, president, but you cannot deny that your president was black. |
| 0:36.2 | Right, right, right. |
| 0:37.2 | And it's that small moment where you go like, do I make it? Do I not? |
| 0:40.4 | Right, right, right. |
| 0:41.6 | But welcome to the show. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks, man. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, man, it's been quite a journey for you. |
| 0:45.8 | I remember the first time we spoke and you had exploded onto the scene. |
| 0:51.0 | Your book, a bestseller, everyone talking about you. |
| 0:55.0 | And your life has changed since then. |
| 0:57.0 | A little bit. |
| 0:57.8 | Little bit? Just a little bit. |
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