2024-10-18
Ta-Nehisi Coates
And so I think maybe we thought or we allowed ourselves to believe that somehow, you know, we had escaped the gravity of history, but no people, no country escapes the gravity of history. We live within it. We we are part of it. Source: Democracy Now!
A round-up of interviews with author Ta-Nehisi Coates on his recently published book The Message. I've not read the book but have been following his interviews with interest as he's a writer who is popular with mainstream liberals and has brought Israel's apartheid system into the discussion. In interview after interview he's offering the most accurate and honest framing of Israel as a violent occupier and perpetrator of genocide.
Also, as he was often accused of presenting only one side he repeatedly brings to light the systemic pro-Israel bias of the Western media. He repeatedly points out the extreme one sidedness of the coverage. In almost every interview sharpens that focus by pointing out that none of the corporate media networks employ a Palestinian as a bureau chief or correspondent. The Palestinian perspective and voice is deliberatly and completely omitted from the mainstream media coverage and discussion.
- Two interviews on Democracy Now!
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on Visit to Israel/West Bank: “An Immoral Apartheid Regime” | Amanpour and Company
- Full Ta-Nehisi Coates interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israel’s APARTHEID: “We need more Palestinians telling the story” on Mehdi Unfiltered
- Jon Stewart's interview with Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Gray Area
- Not so much about Coates but an interesting discussion on the Majority Report, that starts with a clip of his interview with Ezra Klein. The folks at the Majority Report have been relentless in their reporting on Israel and Gaza over the past year. Specifically calling out the thread of white supremacy, Zionism, US support of Zionism and the historical connection to white settler colonialism and genocide in the US. It's all connected, it's the same thread.
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