“I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

[@quaidsaifee]

Ta-Nehisi is one of most amazing authors and prominent intellectuasl of our time.

[@talksmoke1190]

Not really

[@skyelark5511]

​​@@talksmoke1190 He got "Chosen". Edit: One has to be a firm Believer in God to know that everything and everyone has a purpose and that it will all work out for the Good for God does not make mistakes. Jesus Christ was killed. As was Martin Luther King, Malcom X, etc. The accepted, successful ones professing to be revolutionaries are truly troubling.

[@keepcalmandkerryon7180]

I think you meant, worst, morally corrupt, and idiot

[@LisaFager]

Ignorance is no longer bliss. Ta-Nehisi is brave and we need more of this. Protect this brother 🙏🏽

[@upcloselife]

Great conversation. But when it's all said and done, hypocrisy is America's favorite pasttime

[@CurtisWhitehead-wn5bs]

A crucial part of the whole design.

[@missbb5432]

Very well said… point blank

[@chayo4537]

The world. 😂 grow the fuck up and stop using america as a scapegoat for something way larger. Doesnt the world NOT revolve around america?

[@manueldavidson1398]

Most definitely hypocrisy is Amerikkka 's middle finger used to demean and degrade our common humanity.

[@louseveryann2181]

"hypocrisy is America's favorite pasttime" It's also the "Greatest" theocracy of the western world.....

[@MariamWilmore]

Very proud of you. Truth and justice will prevail

[@darniusterix5774]

That discrimination happens here in the USA. "Over there IS over here"! Period.

[@gregorypeterson9]

Thanks for getting him on your show Professor. 💯

[@hoteppanafrica2566]

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a profoundly circumspective philosopher and student of human behavior. I enjoy listening to him parse the cognitive dissonance of the American ethos and how its lies are so divisive and destructive all around the globe. This was a great interview.

[@tulsacaupain2882]

All around the world.

[@missbb5432]

So glad he’s brave enough to speak.the.truth.

[@charlesrosenberg8233]

He's a COWARD who was UTTERLY UNWILLING to talk to Israeli VICTIMS of PA LIE Stinian TERRORISTS.

[@ihavethedocuments2580]

Well said We are in for a ride

[@thenowornerverkid1]

Thus spake the woke god Ta-Nehisi and no one dares to question anything. Since he was challenged by the reporter on CBS he only entertains friendly interviewers. By his own admission he only needs to present one side. Philosopher turned propagandist.

[@marshcreek4355]

My goodness. Karen asks such wonderful and mind blowing questions! A remarkable program and interview. Thanks for this.

[@heatherc2939]

I love this frankness, authenticity. Thank you. Wonderful. ❤❤❤❤❤ 1965 till 2013. That's all America gave you.

[@High_Dollar_Alibi]

Meredith Kopit Levien

[@ZolaClyde]

One of the best conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates I’ve heard yet. Thanks you!

[@KarenHunterShow]

You're welcome.

[@realbeautyness25]

​@@KarenHunterShow ❓❓❓❓ QUESTION IF BLACK AMERICANS DESCENDANT FROM UNITED STATES SLAVERY CAN'T GET REPARATION WHY ARE WE IN OTHER GROUPS POLITICS LIKE GO LOOK AT THE EXIT POLLS NO ONE CARED ABOUT OUR STUFF

[@jamedraa8472]

I really appreciate this show. This show has created the space for this POV, and K Hunter... "The most American thing is for us to ignore something that makes us feel uncomfortable...." telling the truth.

[@meschellewilson8046]

I just bought his book. I've been waiting on him to sit down with you. Both of you are treasures.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Preach!

[@intherapture]

"What right do we have to a democracy over here that exacts the price of genocide in defense of apartheid over there?" 🎯 Gets the the heart of the problem with us

[@itsjaij6482]

Great conversation!!! I agree with you both. Maybe thats why so many are conflicted because America's good has never and currently doesn't outway the bad. However when you come to the realization we really only have a two party system, you have to choose the one who'll do the least bad and the most good...

[@SultansMama]

OMG!!! I just started the audiobook of The Message on Monday. The wait at my library is loooong, which is great! My grandmother was a longtime baltimore activist and introduced me to his work. Ta'Nehisi breaks down big ideas in a way anyone can understand (though they pretend not to). Simply a brilliant mind!

[@Mrskrhall]

Thank you for bringing this conversation Professor Hunter!👏🏾💪🏾

[@lesd2885]

I enjoyed the interview. Thank you.

[@elainemullins4174]

I love it. There's no 'over there' - This challenged my thinking...

[@kb72977]

Ms. Karen Hunter, you are one of the wisest women I've ever encountered. Your axiom "everybody doesn't need a mic and social media gave everybody a mic" is quoted in every discourse I engage in. However, just as a lion cub, no matter where it is born or grows up, still remains a lion. No matter where we are displaced to and we reside, we will always remain african.

[@KarenHunterShow]

thank you.

[@roseleejohnson2449]

I read your book. I learned a lot from it. Thanks for writing.

[@AdastraRecordings]

Ta-Nehisi Coates brings hope that this is being pushed into mainstream consciousness.

[@wiseian8473]

Karen, I am so proud of you. We continue to support people who don’t support us when we need it. I put the Arabs and the Hispanic in the same category. They want us to feel their pain but they don’t feel ours. We don’t need to be feel moral about our relationship with others, we need to be transactional. We need to ask them what do we get for supporting you.

[@laurarandall2355]

Wow that’s racist AF

[@hmmcinerney]

You’re kidding right? I’m White Irish and I marched in my small town when George Floyd was murdered. Local supermarket workers went on strike to not sell South African food during apartheid. When we were starving here because of the man - British - made famine the American Choctaw Indians sent us almost $200 which was a fortune at the time. We also got money from an Indian prince in Rajastan. We were colonised for almost 800 years and lost 20% of our people through starvation. My point is that millions of us were repulsed by Americas ugly history and its horrendous behaviour towards Black Americans. Our fight is the same. Your self absorption and inhumanity is puzzling.

[@laurarandall2355]

@ I feel the same way. Imagine fighting for someone only to discover they hate you. When a marginalized group can’t be heard, it’s the responsibility of the majority to speak for them. One side of my family is ethnically Jewish and the other side came from Germany before the Revolutionary War. So reading comments from people who are so ungrateful is so disheartening. Many of our ancestors fought to emancipate theirs in the bloodiest conflict the USA ever experienced, and I look on here to see people who have never been oppressed calling for the death of others. Wow. The fact any one of them can get on KZbin and complain in the first place is proof we no longer lived in an oppressed country. I don’t understand the rallying cry about freedom here. If this is a political issue, we need to recognize it was Democrat Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor, who pushed African American rights back 100 years, gave protection to the KKK, and attempted to destroy everything Lincoln had implemented. The comments are so horrible on here. “If this doesn’t benefit black people then all Jews can die” is the consensus. Good to know that. It was Jews who went to Mississippi and registered African Americans to vote the summer of 1964. That wasn’t OUR problem but we cared. To all the people of color on here who think Israel and the Jews aren’t your problem because it’s not about you, thanks for showing me how much you really value human life. I’m teaching my babies to love your babies but I can see we aren’t the same.

[@howardgordon3236]

I found out that the Palestinians mistreat black people in Palestine. The Hispanics have never been down with us. I remember the first time I heard the expression, don't make people a priority when they're not making you a priority. As black people we do that every other day.

[@caroleappling2007]

@@laurarandall2355Don’t try and put us all into one group and we won’t try to lump you in with the Zionist. I am old enough to remember “ freedom riders” some on this thread are not. I also know how many fights black people have fought for others while we had nothing. Hurt and pain was once again thrown in our face with this last elections. Once again our very existence in this country is at state. We had a brief moment of lashing out, give some of a moment to exhale. The majority of us to not want the genocide😢 to go on in our names, we do not want our taxpayer dollars going towards murder innocent children and women. We have been protesting, boycotting and sending money. We are angry, hurt and disappoint. But, we will do the right thing, we do have moral conscience. We know what is right from wrong. Side note, you too are saying the Jews involvement was transactional.

[@wobbler30]

Thanks Dr Hunter I’m praying u get a mainstream show. We need u there

[@leannelivers3827]

People will always pick cold comfort over change

[@chayo4537]

What are you talking about?😂

[@maryla1558]

Dr Hunter is spot on. Those that claim being "sheltered" are the ones to distrust b/c they are choosing it at this point.

[@chayo4537]

People who grew up sheltered are dangerous and think america owes them something and try to attach themselves to u.s and black people. Its weird and very intrusive. Feels like spiritual warfare. You got this wild irish man and non americans talking smack

[@hosseinnourallahi2480]

Thank you for supporting Humanity

[@marcuspope5328]

Mr Coates is not exaggerating regarding the breath of housing segregation in Israel. Speaking from experience visiting Israel several times, cross - training with their military and being stationed overseas in the Middle East. Haifa had sections where certain migrant workers from Eastern Europe and African would have to live. We were warned of certain areas of the city, border off limits because of those people!! I thought about how my grandparents felt living in segregation, isolation and restricted access. That helped develop my empathy for what other black and brown communities are experiencing throughout the world

[@ḵulagaaw]

Come on now. You're speaking about issues that exist here. I didn't see this blatant racism that is spoken of in Israel. I seen a multiracial, multi ethnic, multicultural, multi religious society. I also traveled extensively throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In the Arab world it is homogeneous. The saving grace is throughout the Muslim world you can see the diversity. But the truth is the truth, it's essentially racial supremacy in the Arab world. Help is imported. Let's be honest. So all I'm saying is it's complicated. Especially when you're trying to convince people that the homogenous supremacist society is the good one and the multicultural society is the racist one. I guess since there is no multicultural situation in Gaza they don't have to deal with it. I guess. He is just framing what he saw with our experience. That's fine as a tool but it gives you half the story.

[@LadyLawyerG]

Did it motivate you to vote and Organize for Democrat Administration?

[@hmmcinerney]

@@ḵulagaawHow fucking disingenuous

[@godfatherx8334]

@@ḵulagaawYou obviously are ignorant of the history of Israel.🙄 Are you even aware of when Apartheid began there?

[@blackseed9293]

​@@ḵulagaawlol. The difference is we never took up arms to defend ourselves. In the isolated cases we did we were also decimated inspite of being a just and righteous cause. You are really reaching acting like Israel is not an apartheid regime reigning human hell down upon its victims. Just like their best friends in South Africa did who was their number one ally. What tge hell is wrong with your sick soul.

[@joycesvarvar]

Great discussion. Needed, stay on the Path, give people information. Blessings to Writer Tanahasi Coates and to you.

[@doricetimko5403]

Thank you both for sharing this conversation

[@AngryManSki]

That “mourning” statement was powerful!

[@moralfortitude...2217]

*THIS* !!! *what* *Ms. Karen* *said/expressed* @ 13:31... *SPEAK* *unbelievable* *the sentiment is mutual* *it is what it is to be human* & *possess compassion for others*

[@babybijou969]

2:52 “What right we have to a democracy over here, that exacts the price of genocide, in defense of apartheid over there.” I had to listen to this episode twice to come back for this message

[@rgood1204]

People in Dearborn Michigan apparently missed the memo. They are about to find out though.

[@blackant51]

Yup...none of my business.

[@zarario4444]

Hopefully no one gets hurt.

[@kadeshiamatthews4214]

Problem is, it wasn't just Dearborn. Every swing state chose the individual who promises so much harm to nearly every community/identity group in this country (wealthy, hetero white men who don't publicly disagree with him being the lone exception) and many others abroad.

[@ItsTezMan]

@rgood1204 find out what? They've experienced first hand the cold and callous hand of the zionist regime. People in Dearborn have lost their families. What else is there to find out.

[@hmmcinerney]

Little bit of racism going on here.

[@missbb5432]

See y’all.. this is why I love Ms Hunter 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@karenshropshire8385]

Love T. Coates! Met him recently! Such a nice, humble man! Not to mention brilliant! Howard’s pride! Thanks Karen for having him! You’re the best!

[@sherrid.8295]

Karen, you spoke it and received it. Saved the best for last!

[@khalifaomar5191]

Great conversation .. thank you and may God bless both of you.

[@manueldavidson1398]

Karen is the epitome of real and honest journalism. She asks real thought provoking questions and always gets to the real heart of the subject being discussed.

[@KarenHunterShow]

thanks for noticing. I was raised in the tradition of solid journalism. I'm not a journalist on the radio, but the skills don't leave.

[@noturnunstoned]

Love to you both!

[@williammcfarland4704]

Love 2 brilliant people having an honest conversation.

[@itstyra]

Please can we get the full conversation? This had so many gems!!!

[@moalllivesmatter]

Now i have to get the audio of your book... you've just won my heart Ta-Nehisi

[@blackseed9293]

Great show.

[@Kareyn2]

Great conversation! Saving this video to listen again.

[@mtriche4]

How can we help others if we aren’t able to help ourselves?

[@sunshine9717]

@mtriche4 And this is the reason why I'm not moved by his book. We're always so quick to rush to the aid of others or support their causes. Well not today, especially since Trump won. The spotlight needs to be on Black folks. Getting through the next four years.

[@leslieb2971]

Two Brilliant Minds!

[@censorshipagainstthemiddle6198]

Was it brilliant when she was endorsing kamala emhoff?

[@tulsacaupain2882]

I have always loved this man. I wish him ❤and strenght.

[@sheliamayes8171]

He is my favorite author.

[@michelleharley2460]

Many of us know what is happening over there, in our name. That’s why we tried to get the most reasonable of the two candidates in office. Some of the their own “people” chose a protest “ vote. Now where does that lead any of us that we’re fighting for the greater good of all ? 😑

[@bisiashley]

Liberation is not coming from the democrats it’s just not! The wealth gap has increased, black children are reading below the standard in EVERY state, union membership is at historic lows, black organizations are being targeted, people are being murdered for standing up for black people what country are you living in?

[@DivaDen]

Time to fight for our communities and ourselves. The greater good does t exist and the vote of this election told us that

[@bisiashley]

The most reasonable choice was the party that continued to send weapons to israel? They could have implemented an arms embargo and chose not to. Imagine if 100+ of your family members were unalived by american bombs, would you not be pissed at the admin that did it???! This idea that the majority of arabs voted trump is false they voted for Jill stien! And if you add up all Jills votes to Kamala she still LOSES!

[@floydg16]

This was a GREAT interview. The thing I like about this brotha he comes with the knowledge. When you come to the table like that there is no question you have a problem with because he has the capability to stand on what he wrote and the thoughts from it.

[@onlineinmsbsafespace]

Thanks for the conversation and Professor Coates just continue the work.😊

[@moralfortitude...2217]

@ 12:31 *EVERRRRYTIME* *T.C.* *gives his this correct thinking point* *Reminiscent* *of* *Mr.* *Frederick Douglass'* *speech:* *What to the slave is the fourth of July* 🤨🙄👆

[@cecilhayden585]

I've been looking forward to and hoping for this interview. Thanks ever so much for doing this.

[@bettyholloman4876]

As a black American that's lived an undercover racist town I have always voted for the candidate that posed the lesser threat for my family. So yes I could have voted for kamala even though she was part of an administration that was doing harm to my people. LBJ, Kennedy, Carter to name a few. We push for better through the ones that is movable

[@TACo-281]

Huh?

[@kadeshiamatthews4214]

@@bettyholloman4876 When has the person heading the incoming administration moved on anything related to the well-being of black folk without getting something in return?

[@karenblum5429]

I get what he is saying 'but' I have been for Palestine having their own country since the first time that I heard their story . Now they spit in my face, tell me I am the problem, never help me, never talk to the white man like they dare to talk to/about me. So, tell your story to whites and ALL the other Arab nations that allow this to happen to you! Where are they? Yes, sitting at the table with Israel, America, and the rest of the Western world. I was never your enemy, but I see that you were always mine. I will read the book bc it speaks to my heart,but I will see if it speaks to my brain- that knows they would not pour a shotglass of water on me if I was set aflame...

[@DivaDen]

​@@kadeshiamatthews4214America is about helping if its gonna benefit America (YT America that is)

[@bettyholloman4876]

I agree and that's why I was responding to the question of putting myself in the shoes of Muslim people voting for kamala. As a 60 something black voter i had no party or candidate with a black agenda ever therefore I voted for the candidate that could be persuaded to listen. So yes if i was Muslim I could have voted for kamala to save my people total destruction for one more chance to protest another chance to fight another day to organize another chance to gather ​strength in numbers to change minds. I remember the fight i know what's it is like to feel betrayed i am still voting for the candidate who is more movable @kadeshiamatthews4214

[@globalmajority1310]

As Always Excellent conversations Professor Karen Hunter. Thank you 🙏🏾

[@sammyallen9566]

He is spot on

[@jacquelinem4108]

Wonderful point I made the same point about sympathy for the bad guys in movies n tv to my daughter just the other day We’re being taught to accept the bad guys/bad behavior

[@nubian47]

He asks a rhetorical question and he knows it. No candidate can state the words he believes should be asked because they would no longet electable for the office she was pursuing.

[@ItsTezMan]

What disturbs me the most is that we are ok with candidates not being able to tell the truth.

[@RelevantEd_DrHenderson]

I disagree, she could have said “weapons embargo.” I’d even go farther and say that her base would’ve agreed. That and a solid policy platform, she would’ve taken the chair.

[@robertnicholls9917]

70% of the base want an end to the war but somehow they've convinced you that doing the opposite is more electable. Really? Running around with torture supporter Liz Cheney and courting W. Bush's endorsement was the right thing to do?

[@davidpeaston8443]

That's it !!

[@BoldenFMA]

Atrocities commited against the least of us, will eventually be visited upon the rest. Whats happening there is not "our problem" until it is.

[@laurarandall2355]

Thank you 👏🏻

[@chocobabyflakes3215]

THIS!!!!! It breaks my heart when MY people refuse to see this.

[@janethoward2155]

Until it is. Thank you

[@christopherthompson5322]

I am a writer as well. The facts do not change: If we are powerless here, there is nothing we can do for Palestinians.

[@JustRaine97]

Exactly.

[@blackseed9293]

Sadly, we are always in the most powerless position. Inspite of voting either way.

[@mouwafakchourbagui8296]

As a son of a Palestinian mother, let me tell you there is. You might not stop the slaughter but you can raise awareness on the issue, you can counter the dominant narrative by writing, you can be kind when you come across Palestinians, you can donate to those who have to start a life elsewhere. One person can't do much but when a lot of people do a little, that makes a big difference

[@christopherthompson5322]

@mouwafakchourbagui8296 , THE real problem is those Palestinians who went viral telling black people to keep Palestians names out of our F'ingmouth

[@fearlesslycurly]

I needed to hear this conversation ❤

[@EnzroGreenidge]

Read the book, and wondering if I should get it for my teen daughters.

[@kathygoodwin-williams7556]

Thank you. "The MESSAGE" and your first-hand account have given me clarity on what is happening in the Middle East currently. With all that is before US in the US, I have sincere empathy. I live among Palestinians in Cincinnati, Ohio...a Sanctuary City. As a former politician I feel led to tell their stories...., I am interested in conversing with my neighbors, but they are leary of this single, black, bald, and uncovered woman. I smile, engage with a hello, and interact with their children, but there isn't interaction with the adults. How do I earn their trust?

[@saphire2214]

Great interview!

[@LoriPelzer]

Hi Karen! This is such a powerful powerful conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Your challenge in asking him the deepest questions? He has no intention to “detour” or defer whatsoever from what he has come to agreement with within him. He seems to be removed from anything America posture and positioning. He has tied the Palestinian humanity to our name of an American ( black or not) whew deep

[@LordSuperb17]

Idk man I'm not really feeling the solidarity with these folks right now.. helping yt supremacists is kind of a deal breaker for me

[@NomadicKitty]

@@LordSuperb17 I support the palenstinisns in Palenstine not here. I'm laughing because the Muslim really thought Trump was going to help them...??? 🤣

[@tinaramsey2654]

Loved thus conversation! 💯

[@Paula58]

Our first responsibility is to ourselves, then once our freedom, such as it is, is obtained, then we can help others.

[@rodb66]

Hello Professor Hunter and commenters

[@floyd9744]

Powerful!!!!!

[@donaldr.highsmith3064]

I am a proud Baltimorian, I live in Portland Oregon. I went to his book release here. I enjoyed the conversation he had with the shows host. He was very candid and personable. If you have not read his latest book I would encourage you to do so. People here in America really have a perverted view of what is actually taking place in Israel. Israel is nothing like the image that has been projected on us. I am glad that Ta Nehisi spoke to this travesty. As a person of Indigenous heritage from Maryland,Virginia, North Carolina our history is identical to the injustice being carried out in Palestine with the support of the United States. The election of tRuMp has made the potential of annihilation of Palestine more of a reality.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Amen! I'm a Lebanese-American... it's all one story, the colonization we experience. My own govt supplying the arms to drop on my own people... 🤬 When my best friend moved from California to Copenhagen, Denmark for a few years... literally the first huge difference he pointed out was the way people talked about Israel.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

PS. Can't wait to read the book!

[@sherrid.8295]

"When you forget the lessons of your own oppression." #andhereweare

[@ClubhouseCrime]

So important. Coates is a American 🇺🇸.

[@Zebsnyc]

🖤🖤🖤

[@manontherun8693]

Yes

[@HumanityandIntegrity]

Thanks for sharing. You two channelled two of my thoughts ... Our oppressions may look different, but they ferl similar and it's not complicated, stop trying to play it safe and sit on yhe sideline being lukewarm. Pick a side.

[@kisslena]

I LOVE this conversation. Remarkable! Dr. Hunter and Mr. Coates THIS is the wisdom I want to communicate with continuously. So insightful, so TRUTHFUL. Why!! *screamed like Nettie in “The Color Purple” (1985)* Why the intentional and willful disregard of our humanity. We’ve given SO MUCH… Why… in the 21st Century. SMH

[@carolynlane3439]

Some of us have been mourning... this is just a continuation.

[@sheritamitchell1036]

I'm mourning my own innocence albeit IGNORANCE!

[@truth-1111]

so kamala was the better choice smh

[@Bluejacket4life2]

So, the son of klansman, a rapist,felon and a habitual liar a better candidate smh

[@prettybrownbrown7]

In every sense of the word, yes

[@patrickfuller1327]

@@prettybrownbrown7you will see in February 😂when trump has the police going up on these young men and women.

[@Old_Skool_Og]

Amen Amen and another Amen. They told us this election was for the soul of America, for a reason.

[@OriginalBernieBro]

Have the latest book have yet to read it though.

[@realspillmidwestboxingtalk2139]

💯

[@moscabianca2054]

"What right do we have to a democracy over here that exacts the price of genocide in defense of apartheid over there?" Ta-Nehisi Coates.

[@greymatters7039]

Trump to Netanyahu, “Do what you need to do.” West Bank is now being turned into a resort area in “Israel”. BiBi Resorts and cruises.

[@johnxavier0140]

Exactly. Elections have consequences. Whether you vote or not. Buckle up.

[@bisiashley]

@@johnxavier0140so why is it that the American elections have so much to do with Palestine? Could it be that it’s because they’re supplying weapons?

[@ZANNADU54]

Omg, Lawrence from Texas who voted for Trump got that quote from Joe Madison. He is Gaslighting!

[@ZANNADU54]

Omg, he just called Rev Al Sharpton's channel too with same bullshit, saying everyone knows him and whole lot of other foolishness. Lol. Dumb af. I am a designer so I just listen and let it roll but yeah he's a troll and he is not alone.

[@thenowornerverkid1]

Never thought much about Africa but went to Nigeria for 9 days. Now I'm an expert. Ask me anything. I go on talk shows all the time and pontificate about Africa.

[@raymondjensen4603]

The Dunning-Kruger effect. It is complicated..., Coates will provide the blinders, now got to sleep.

[@EJohnD-ou9ss]

Karen grinning ear to ear like a proud mother! Understood-We’re all proud of this brother!! 🎉✊🏾

[@templeshot8923]

Love that you dropped the Mel lyric...song of the same name💪🏿

[@jamedraa8472]

@9:30 THIS is the point I'm trying to get my family to feel about those (with family in Gaza & the West Bank) who just couldn't vote for either candidate.

[@moralfortitude...2217]

*Mr.* *39th* *President* *Jimmy* *Carter* *book* *Palestine,* *Peace not* *Apartheid*

[@henrywatts7033]

I think that what is missing is the name for siding with the conquerors. When we feel for the people, who are we? When we go with the governing status quo, (the power side), who are we? What do we then teach our children? It feels like we are nobody, and we are less than nobody because we cannot teach our children how to be somebody.

[@classyjade7857]

I understand what Mr. Coates is saying but would push back on him saying it’s done in “my” name (as an American). America doesn’t see black ppl the same way many black Americans see America…as a part of….belonging to. I get it because what else do black people have to call themselves when their true identity was stripped centuries ago. America’s support of Israel is problematic but also emblematic of what the country is at its core. The recent election results are not shocking, they’re consistent with the history of this country. Republicans were asked twice about MAGA and what time period they wanted to return to and in both polls they voted for the 1950’s. White people are well aware of what the 1950’s looked like for communities of color yet had no problem desiring and then voting not once but twice for that agenda. Ppl say rac•ism is a stain on American history but I argue it’s a strain/strand deep within its DNA.

[@debiseeu1620]

Us first, then whoever follows. But we first.

[@JAMESJOHNSON-qs8qg]

Yes, we need all our energy for ourselves.

[@hmmcinerney]

Ugly message.

[@sunshine9717]

​@hmmcinerney It's not ugly if it's truthful. If you're in America. You damn sure better wake up. Trump ain't playing.

[@hmmcinerney]

@ Better strength in numbers. Trump came to my country during the child separation era. We protested at the airport, and were 3,000 miles away.

[@chayo4537]

​@@hmmcinerneygo home you irish hillbilly

[@Grimloxz]

Right there at 3:10 Mr Coates. They will be judged.

[@veteransponderosafarm8841]

I'll give up all of the things if everybody could be good. This statement is what everyone black person and anyone of high moral standard should be asking themselves. The things, what are you willing to sacrifice for righteousness?

[@laurarandall2355]

If we read the comment section it seems that unless folks are receiving something in return, people like me don’t have a right to exist. That’s concerning and supremacy in a nutshell. These comments gave me a clear view of the average Kamala voter.

[@chayo4537]

​@laurarandall2355 the same thing could said about you. How dare you demand anything from a group of people? First off? The entitlement and the ignorance and reverse psychology, guilt tripping, gaslighting! Of it all. We are not toy soldiers! We are not obligated to help others when we've done that throughout history and that's we've gotten in the predicament we're in. As if we gotta fight for others humanity who don't see ours

[@karlculpepper]

He’s gotta know that Kamala could not promise that! It’s way more complicated than that and he should know that! May God help us all 🙏🏽

[@wiseian8473]

@@karlculpepper They wanted her to commit political suicide before she started. They don’t care about us.

[@quinnmurph2750]

Are you saying that Harris COULD NOT promise to not support apartheid and genocide? If so, why couldn't she? That's a very low bar to meet. She, in fact, was in a particularly powerful position. She was not just a candidate, she's the current Vice President, and all the horror, death, destruction, and ethnic cleansing that we've seen over the last 13 months took place with the full financial and diplomatic support of her and Biden's administration. Presumably, she had a voice and could have used it to persuade Biden; and before anyone jumps to, "She's just the VP": Dick Cheney was just the VP, too. Besides, she's a politician. Politicians can promise anything with no responsibility for delivering. As black people, we should understand that principal the most.

[@hmmcinerney]

It’s not complicated. Neither was Vietnam.

[@robertnicholls9917]

None of tjis is complicated. many of you need that to be the case to make excuses for supporting it.

[@karlculpepper]

@ I’m not supporting it at all, obviously it is complicated and it’s always been complicated! The Israeli- Palestinian conflict has been going on dating back to the 19th century! If it was easy it would have solved by now! 🎤

[@ahsenzafar8037]

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