Ta-Nehisi Coates: We Should Have Seen Dallas Coming
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for The Atlantic and National Book Award winner for Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), talks about race, policing and the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the recent police shootings.
Gave it last year. Nothing to add. Cancer is still cancer.https://t.co/cBEtiF21RJhttps://t.co/6WhBdXabz6 https://t.co/3DI7oYkRif
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) July 11, 2016
@BrianLehrer @tanehisicoates @WNYC that @DPDChief named all but systemic racism is absolutely telling. not in his consciousness. systemic
— fafa sojidellha (@fafa019) July 12, 2016
.@tanehisicoates talks race & policing on the @BrianLehrer Show. #RadioTalksRace pic.twitter.com/rf7dUZV70q
— WNYC (@WNYC) July 12, 2016
"I can’t imagine this moment without BLM," says @tanehisicoates on fed policing commission, NYPD guidelines. "So I think that is progress."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 12, 2016
We can say we've made progress on race since 68 and also say "we have a really really long way to go" -@tanehisicoates to @brianlehrer @WNYC
— Jim Schachter (@jimschachter) July 12, 2016
Cop Robert tells @tanehisicoates "if you're scared this is the wrong job to you... A lot of these officers are afraid, period." @BrianLehrer
— Jim Schachter (@jimschachter) July 12, 2016
.@tanehisicoates is LIVE on @BrianLehrer right now. TUNE in @ https://t.co/Jch6rrUO9M. pic.twitter.com/SWQFRNI0eN
— WNYC (@WNYC) July 12, 2016
"We should have saw [Dallas] coming…We fed this diet of legitimate violence against black ppl to black ppl over+over again." @tanehisicoates
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 12, 2016
