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TODAY’s Craig Melvin sits down with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose book “Between the World and Me” has been adapted into a new HBO film.
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  • @rudyardmagpie
    @rudyardmagpie3 жыл бұрын

    The RED SKULL is cooler than Captain America. Hail Lobster!

  • @MrOMYSTARZ
    @MrOMYSTARZ3 жыл бұрын

    Passports black native people...get your passport! Go see how much we are loved and respected around the entire world.

  • @ChibiArchivesProduction

    @ChibiArchivesProduction

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow! This is interesting! I actually have my own channel filled with great Christian content. Come and watch our inspirational interviews with this link kzread.info/dron/ppB8jKHA6vYLtY1SCSLaHA.html

  • @janayewill3883

    @janayewill3883

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well I want to go to Africa one day soon !!

  • @chrisman10485

    @chrisman10485

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@janayewill3883 please go and see what life is life without westernized privilege and luxury

  • @befirmbefair6674

    @befirmbefair6674

    2 жыл бұрын

    The myth of the black man is in this post. Do not descend to such a cheap identity. In ultimate man there is no black or white.

  • @stacyraysor1710
    @stacyraysor1710 Жыл бұрын

    Here is a person who is not afraid to say… I DON’T KNOW!!! Bravo Brother Coates!!!

  • @suntzu3541

    @suntzu3541

    Жыл бұрын

    This is the clown who demonized Jordan Peterson

  • @amenahking7863
    @amenahking78632 жыл бұрын

    Brother Coates is an excellent writer with such a beautiful mind. I cannot wait to read his next book.

  • @craigthurlow9308

    @craigthurlow9308

    2 жыл бұрын

    You MIGHT want to consider growing a BRAIN🤪

  • @whalesong8040
    @whalesong80403 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for articulating exactly what is in my heart and mind as well.

  • @craigthurlow9308

    @craigthurlow9308

    2 жыл бұрын

    Another LEFTARDED RACIST?🤪

  • @justlikeeveryoneelse1099
    @justlikeeveryoneelse10993 жыл бұрын

    Brother Coates thank you for speaking a truth that many prefer unsaid and unheard. I've ordered your book. Thank you again.

  • @justlikeeveryoneelse1099

    @justlikeeveryoneelse1099

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stfu to you also.

  • @02nf2i

    @02nf2i

    3 жыл бұрын

    @First Name I know it’s the internet, but do you need to insult someone over something so trivial?

  • @justmyopinion9883
    @justmyopinion98833 жыл бұрын

    I've read several of TaNehesi Coates books, and enjoyed all of them. He is a very gifted writer. Thank you for sharing this conversation---I agree with most of what Mr Coates says.

  • @lilljacob
    @lilljacob9 ай бұрын

    I understand why this guy doesn't have twitter.

  • @h.j.w2783
    @h.j.w27833 жыл бұрын

    "For all his subtle plumbing of his own thoughts and feelings and his occasional invocations of the importance of the individuality of the person, Coates has to reduce people to categories and actors in a pantomime of racial plunder to support his worldview. He must erase distinctions and reject complexity." - Rich Lowry, Politico Magazine. The elevator scenario in his book 'Between The World & Me' being the clearest example of this blinkered attitude. Just got done reading it, and was struck by his total inability to look within. Perhaps the beatings he took at the hands of his own father have contributed to this mans dogged determination to blame everyone but himself?

  • @ChiTown2k69

    @ChiTown2k69

    3 жыл бұрын

    Taking a hypothetical position of a person enduring physical violence from a parent as trauma to have an outlook on life with a since of "victimization" could be easily validated if the victims reality were delusional...but sadly due to the fact that a black teenager like Rodney Reese can be handcuffed in 2021 makes me realize that Ta HaNeisi Coates perspective is necessary , regardless of what false dichotomy this journalist Richard Lowry only THINKS he knows. And furthermore shows me how much some white people need to LEARN.

  • @tigerlilly9038

    @tigerlilly9038

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ChiTown2k69 You better say it. The assumption that the complexity can only be processed as "victim" told me more about the reviewer than the author. Some explanations are beyond comprehension to some, I let them go their way in peace as I go mine.

  • @wrnr_mn
    @wrnr_mn3 жыл бұрын

    "people that look like you and me" one man has a college sweater, full beard and twists. The other a suit, shaven and a fresh fade. By the look of them they have completely different occupations but that sentence is now so normalized that it immediately is clear that their skin tone is meant and nothing else, thus it has converted the skin tone into a monolithic identity

  • @gggg-mz2gk
    @gggg-mz2gk3 жыл бұрын

    "They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were the menaces of nature"- Black supremacist Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about 9/11 first responders

  • @ivoryday6689

    @ivoryday6689

    3 жыл бұрын

    You have one quote and no context.

  • @tigerlilly9038

    @tigerlilly9038

    3 жыл бұрын

    CONTEXT. CONTEXT. CONTEXT.

  • @infinitythompson6479

    @infinitythompson6479

    3 жыл бұрын

    You have obviously never read his book, and you aren't providing any context. He acknowledges that white supremacy had made him more hateful towards others, and that isn't something he's proud of. It was an uncomfortable feeling, and a cycle that many people who are part of oppressed groups/minorities experience.

  • @justinshin2279

    @justinshin2279

    2 жыл бұрын

    “Black supremacist Ta-Nehisi Coates” is “not human to me” -gg gg, KZread See how context matters? If you read the few paragraphs leading into that quote you would know he was talking about a feeling he hated but felt at the time, not expressing his actual intellectual feeling toward first responders. It’s like saying “Sometimes I wish I could just plow through traffic” on a busy day. I don’t actually want to hurt anyone but it’s a feeling many get when you are annoyed with traffic.

  • @TheJmadd10
    @TheJmadd103 жыл бұрын

    His humility and authenticity is so refreshing!

  • @FreeSenpai

    @FreeSenpai

    3 жыл бұрын

    whatcha smoking?

  • @alanscott4981

    @alanscott4981

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are fun 😂😂😂 racist

  • @craigthurlow9308

    @craigthurlow9308

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeh as a 💩 in your jocks🤮

  • @chrissessions6108
    @chrissessions61083 жыл бұрын

    Between the World and Me certainly impacted me and helped me better understand the experiences of black people.

  • @chrissessions6108

    @chrissessions6108

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@itzasweater9621 which guy?

  • @FreeSenpai

    @FreeSenpai

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chrissessions6108 you, and Tah Nehisi, both

  • @Vickyg407
    @Vickyg4073 жыл бұрын

    I agree with him!!! I like this dude

  • @jeffreytroublefield4265

    @jeffreytroublefield4265

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you agree when he said he was glad the first responders on 9/11 were killed? Just wondering

  • @badash1738
    @badash17383 жыл бұрын

    I will buy his writings when I run out of toilet paper!

  • @stevedentt9016
    @stevedentt90163 жыл бұрын

    So what are the cities and dates he is touring in China this year?

  • @gmwilliams4314
    @gmwilliams43143 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, thank you, thank you for this illuminating interview. #onelove 👏👏👏

  • @Gl-my8fw

    @Gl-my8fw

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just a talentless moron... look how he is destroying formerly good content. He just spews racial and genders lies and b.s ant throws woke trash into things they dont belong.

  • @Dimmary

    @Dimmary

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Gl-my8fw In an interview he said in 9/11 he watched all of it and felt nothing.

  • @craigthurlow9308

    @craigthurlow9308

    2 жыл бұрын

    SURELY you JEST🤪

  • @whalesong8040
    @whalesong80403 жыл бұрын

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is a fabulously poetic and inventive writer of historical fiction. Please promote his work! It is so incredibly vital and commands a huge audience, most especially in these times! Thank you, Sir, for your important work! Keep it coming!

  • @geot4647

    @geot4647

    3 жыл бұрын

    Too bad he claims that black crime is a myth, which excuses endless bashing of cops who try to control it. See Atlantic piece.

  • @allenglass3461

    @allenglass3461

    3 жыл бұрын

    He also called first responders "not human"

  • @vforvendetta6193

    @vforvendetta6193

    3 жыл бұрын

    Redwood.... naïeve much?

  • @alanscott4981

    @alanscott4981

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha that guy is racist and a bad person

  • @eflo182
    @eflo1822 жыл бұрын

    What he said about first responders of 911 is atrocious. This guy is a horrible person.

  • @jeromegray1977
    @jeromegray19773 жыл бұрын

    I love seeing two Black Brothers choppin' it up about life in America from a black perspective. And it is as Ta-Nehisi said "black people are different". But that is not a bad thang!

  • @troysanders691

    @troysanders691

    3 жыл бұрын

    Preach brotha ✊🏽

  • @anguishedcarpet

    @anguishedcarpet

    3 жыл бұрын

    look up his comments about 9/11 first responders, he's disgusting

  • @michellegriffin394
    @michellegriffin3943 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Great book.

  • @floydarnold427

    @floydarnold427

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Michelle Griffin Hello hope u re well ? I absolutely agree with your comment, Seeing how beautiful and kind hearted you look has made me curious in getting to know more about the woman behind. Would be nice hearing from you, Stay safe!

  • @dontpanic1812
    @dontpanic18123 жыл бұрын

    Neat interview. Very earnest. Don't get enough of that these days. Question: Regarding someone like Trump, anyone think Social Darwinism and Narcissism is different from White Supremacy? I sound like an apologist or polemic in asking, but I'm more curious about the differences in motivations and objectives than who practices it, more curious about the psychology than obvious racial connections. For example, anyone can be as nihilistic as the other; this lack of compassion for another isn't dependent upon race. I don't know that there's that much difference between elitism and supremacy, but I think there's a difference between a general lack of empathy and conscious oppression, between detachment and active exclusion. Not buying that one's politics or birth determines historical complicity. Think that is determined by one's learned and adopted beliefs and actions. On the face of it, Trump is obviously racist; his actions have determined that. But what caused those actions-- the Social Darwinism, the Elitism or the Narcissism? Just as obvious, Trump doesn't see himself as a racist, thinks he's fighting for a repressed, unheard and underrepresented segment of society, just as progressive liberals, Dems and most Independents are. His faction just happens to be mostly white, ours just happens to hate anyone who is. This is so bonkers, one assumes Chris Hedges is on to something: most of this could just be American Sadism.

  • @chloethompson1645
    @chloethompson16453 жыл бұрын

    WORD

  • @0786RICARDO
    @0786RICARDO3 жыл бұрын

    69 people have clean rooms

  • @user-xi9mc2uu8n

    @user-xi9mc2uu8n

    2 жыл бұрын

    disliking a video, commenting on a video both support the video and propel it into the algorithm

  • @dukewellington7050
    @dukewellington70503 жыл бұрын

    Dude is a hardcore racist. Good job

  • @RafiDude

    @RafiDude

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, Donald Trump and many of his supporters are hardcore racists.

  • @dukewellington7050

    @dukewellington7050

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RafiDude Lmao. Baseless accusations. At what point did trump do or say anything racist. Give me one example.

  • @tigerlilly9038

    @tigerlilly9038

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dukewellington7050 Are you serious 😳

  • @dukewellington7050

    @dukewellington7050

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tigerlilly9038 yes?

  • @infinitythompson6479

    @infinitythompson6479

    3 жыл бұрын

    You've never read his book, have you? I've had to read it twice for college, and he is far from racist. When someone who is part of an oppressed group, I.E. a black person who experiences constant racism like he has, it can make them feel spiteful. This is an uncomfortable feeling as a result of oppression - it is not the same prideful feeling that white supremacists display. As for Trump being racist, it is not a baseless accusation. He has continuously pandered to white supremacy groups and refused to acknowledge them as domestic terrorists. He stereotyped black and Jewish reporters. He made jokes about the Trail of Tears. He referred to covid-19 as "the China virus" and the "kung flu". He has refused to rent to black tenants. Trump's Castle would intentionally take all black employees off the floor. More black people were executed during his presidential term than any other recent presidency. Just look it up. I'm not gonna say you're a racist, but you are being willfully ignorant.

  • @chrisman10485
    @chrisman104853 жыл бұрын

    Can you say garbage person?

  • @darniusterix5774
    @darniusterix57743 жыл бұрын

    One of the brilliant minds of the 21st century. Love to her this brother speak.

  • @lootpack2525

    @lootpack2525

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess you haven’t heard of his terrible comments regarding 9/11. And the fact that he blames many if not all bad things that happen to black people on white supremacy. Is he a smart guy, I can’t argue that however I can’t stand by with someone who thinks everything is about racism. Now, Thomas Sewell is one of the brilliant minds of the last century.

  • @MK-pt9zt

    @MK-pt9zt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nope.

  • @craigthurlow9308

    @craigthurlow9308

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes a BLACK RACIST LOVING another BLACK RACIST🤮blm SUX🖕

  • @vandaalexander160
    @vandaalexander1603 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @brahmsO
    @brahmsO3 жыл бұрын

    Awful writer 🙄🥱👎🤦‍♂️

  • @tigerlilly9038

    @tigerlilly9038

    3 жыл бұрын

    What authors do you admire, curious? What is your example of great author

  • @jeffreytroublefield4265

    @jeffreytroublefield4265

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @jeffreytroublefield4265

    @jeffreytroublefield4265

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thomas Sowell.

  • @jesuschristlovesyou726
    @jesuschristlovesyou7263 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Christ is coming soon to rapture his people repent and accept him as Lord and savior. KJV John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condem the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. 1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. John 10:27:30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. John 5:22-24 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgement unto the son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Acts 16:30-31 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Titus 3:4-9 But after that the kindness and love of God our savior toward man appeared, Not of works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. Ephesians 2:8-9 For by Grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Romans 10:9-13 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the Lord shall be saved. Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 3:23-24 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Romans 5:6-11 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for the righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Romans 4:5-8 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto the the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also he have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall be made alive. 2 Timothy 1:9-10 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: 1Timothy 1:15-16 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me First Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. John 6:28-40 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Galatians 3:24-29 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain Mathew 5:16-19 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandant's, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 Romans 2:11 Romans 12:2-11 John 1:1-14 1 John 5:7 John 8:54-58 Isaiah 53:5-12 Zechariah 12:8-11 Isaiah 7:14 Titus 2:12-14 2 Peter 3:3-10 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Luke 26-36 Luke 21:25-36 Acts 2:17 Joel 2:28 Amos 3:7 2 Timothy 3:1-7 1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 Revelation 3:10 🕊️♥️🙏🙌🛐✝️

  • @danielh8569
    @danielh85693 жыл бұрын

    You title headlines the interviewer and treats the person bein interviewed as a side piece.

  • @dannymcneal8253

    @dannymcneal8253

    3 жыл бұрын

    Today Show trying to use the power of both names to draw a diversity of folks to it

  • @jeffreytroublefield4265

    @jeffreytroublefield4265

    2 жыл бұрын

    He is

  • @befirmbefair6674
    @befirmbefair66742 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, Mr. Coats is what TS Eliot calls a “hollow man.”

  • @stevereed8786
    @stevereed87863 жыл бұрын

    Now here is a true Black racist that wants White guy dead. Here is pure hate and resentment over the past. When he says he is overflowing, he is actually saying he is packed full of rage and hate for a White people no matter who you are.

  • @debbiebailey8369

    @debbiebailey8369

    2 жыл бұрын

    White ppl hate us for no reason…

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