Via Mediaite:
“That’s just American history,” Coates explained. “People have this idea that the American Revolution — like the tea party was an actual party, that it was somehow nonviolent. The roots of this country are very, very violent. Enslavement, which is at the root of this country…that’s at the basis of who we are. The theft of the land from Native Americans, that’s at the basis of who we are. So when talk about all the things that we love about America — democracy, freedom — I don’t think that we should lose sight of the foundation on which those things were built. They were not built nonviolently.” […]
This humble scribe was just wondering this morning why Ta-Nehisi Coates is not on more of them television panels, especially discussing issues such as Ferguson. And then hey! There he was on Face the Nation.
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