Ta-Nehisi Coates on why stories count in the Trump-Podcast era | Ta-nehisi coates
“This is a cultural president. Don’t make mistakes.”
For Ta-nehisi coatesThe award -winning writer and journalist, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his allies clearly include the power of narration in politics. Coates recently wrote a new book, the message and says it Michael Safi That the stories told on TV, films, literature and beyond are not a distraction from politics today, but they are actively modeling them.
The couple discusses if the political center-left in the United States has become uncomfortable in the cultural kingdom and the most conservative movement is in many ways, adopting the role of the administrator of the status quo. They also examine the role of white supremacy in the narratives that emerge against progressive policy and identity.
Coates describes a visit to the Middle East and the significant gulf that sees between how the Israel-Palestine conflict is portrayed in the US media and on what he witnessed on the ground. The writer also reflects from an African American perspective on the stories told on Israel and outlines the reaction to his book so far.
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