I don't know why so much money and so much effort and so much power would be expended when telling a particular story.

I mean, one of the things I go through in the messages, all of the movies, the novels, like the culture of lying about this.

You know, it's a lot of cultural work that goes into this, man.

And I think it's because they know. They know. You know, the beautiful thing about the truth is it's easy. But lies are hard. Lies are really hard to maintain. You know, because you start pushing on it. And then the person has to tell another lie. Then they're going to tell another line. And the truth is just this is what happened, man. You know, this is what happened.

You know, end the story.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of Magtesee Street.

I'm here, as always, my brother is Sedi and Karim.

And today we have an extraordinary special guest, Tanahasi Coates.

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Tanaasi Coates is an award-winning author and journalists.

His books include The Water Dancer,

and his most recent book is, of course, the message,

which was published by One World, an imprint of Random House.

Tanahasi is currently a contributing editor of Vanity Fair

and the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department at Howard University.

Tanahasi also enjoyed a successful run

writing Marvel's Black Panther between 2016 and

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