ta-nehisi coates on palestine

America is changing for the best. It is leaning more & more towards the right side of history. The public is ahead of its politicsl class but that’s the normal order of things. They will follow course eventually ❤️

@zhihuachen "Rashid Khalidi (left) speaks on the history of Palestine in a conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates (right) and moderator Michelle Alexander (middle) at a PalFest event on Wednesday, November 1."

Only the oppressed or historically so will understand and feel for the oppressed in such depth. Like the Irish, like the South Africans,….and like the African Americans.

Daniel Day Lewis Ta-Nehisi Coates Anthony Bourdain Anyone who visits Gaza and the West Bank comes back as a changed person. Wonder why.

It’s not that I love him— I do, he’s awesome. It’s that he’s a presence Not a force Just knowing he’s talking about it. It helps.

No wonder he felt like in Jim Crow USA. Jim Crow was the basis for the segregation policies of the Nazis and all the segregation that followed in the world

My first time in Tel Aviv in 1988, I felt the same, and it haunts me still... I felt power, but I did not feel safe. I have friends in the Israeli military. I have spoken to them. They understand. There may be others who frown upon my perceptions. But my lens is not clouded.

This is so powerful! THC’s aha moment and the corroding influence of violence!

WOW!! Deep stuff from Coates😢

Way too much beating around the bush.