"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudice quicker than you can convince man by logic." Robert A Heinlin

absolutely. enslaved is the most appropriate word;forces the real conversation most want to avoid

I'm SOOOO happy when she tried to switch the conversation the immigrant families he brought it right back to the TOPIC of discussion. Thank You for that Sir.

Being a Blackman in this country, I have pain and hatred for white America! I have no energy to forgive at this time in my life, but I hope one day I may! I was molested by a white man when I was 8! A friend was hung and castrated 37 years ago an countless other reasons! Thank you Mr.Coates for shining light on so many issues.

This interviewer is really good. Her questions and timing were really thoughtful.

Wow. What a Powerful interview. Heartbreaking, to say the least, how our people and families were destroyed and separated from each other, while being enslaved and tortured at the hands 🤚of this nation, we now call HOME. UNFATHOMABLE.

I love how real and authentic Coates is, Wasnt he also an Author after being a Blogger before becoming a Novelist. He’s so honest, graceful and clear as day about discussing some of the most challenging things, removing blinders everywhere. I’m learning so much from him. His humble presence has its own deep power, like he’s talking to friends so conversationally but about the most difficult shadows in our collective history.

HE IS SO IMPORTANT.

Is how the interviewer tryed working in immigration by breaking up the family. Their plight can't be compared to the African American experience.

" You must be a really really bad damn businessman doing business with no labour costs and yet die in debt" : Author, Novelist and history journalist Nehisi Coates on Thomas Jefferson's bad business ethics

"Maybe it's worth being respectful & just calling people what they ask for, and maybe you'll catch up a little later. Maybe it takes a second."

Can we stick to the topic of enslaved people without including other groups geez

You have to be a really bad businessperson to have zero labor costs and die in debt. Genius.

“Admit that you did and pay us back”.

I don’t buy the argument. If I label someone a “farmer” rather than a “person who farms,” I’m not reducing their entire being to being a farmer such that I’m not recognizing that the farmer is a full human being with thoughts, feelings, and lived experiences. The reason why the word “slave” is so powerful is precisely because we all recognize that there’s a full human being behind the term. The word “slave” already incorporates the humanity of the slave-powerfully so. We all know this. In other words, the only difference between “slave” and “enslaved person” is that, in the latter, we’re reminding listeners of what is already obvious: that the slave was a person.

"google Zeitgeist" is that not an oxymoron.

Every history teacher in America should read and reference this book.

The Negro Question series by Lee Cummings clears all this up...

Why wasn't Dr. Claude Anderson present at the congressional hearings for reparations back in June? I think he would have been a strong ally in honing in the argument as to why African-american should be paid reparations. He broke this all down in excellent detail back in 2000 before the congressional black caucus. The video is posted on Dr. Claude Anderson's youtube page and is a must watch for anyone who has not seen it.

Thank you for keeping in real. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Genius thinking, we were not slaves as we were labeled, we were ENSLAVED love it!!

Amazing interview

Today, we're wage slaves. When u go to work for an employer u give up your freedom for a paycheck. U have no say in the company u work for.

thank you! why cant we say whats accurate "enslaved". saying we were slaves would determine our state of being, who we are...AND SLAVES IS NOT WHO WE WERE OR ARE!

He provides truth in the perspective that our ancestors were people who where kidnapped, tortured and enslaved ... definitely humanizes the experience of our peoples and should not be titled as “the slaves” who they were as a people. Vs “the enslaved” what happened to our people. However, The statement he the author made that lost me was his quote “If the depiction of the slave master is too evil it’s not believable “???? That seems to be a consistent problem with our people in general. As a people “African descendants of the enslaved“ We need to come to terms with the fact that every race of people do not think like us. Everyone is not capable of humane behavior. Those people have demonstrated time and time again from generation to generation, they are incapable of compassion unless it’s towards their beloved and pampered dogs 🐕 . The moment we understand and accept that is the nature this beast and his beastly woman as well ( “she devils “ do not get a pass either “Brothers”), we will be able to see those devils for who they really are and circle the wagons and strategize accordingly! This is critical to acknowledge and prepare for our futures. Black peoples, please Take your heads out of the sand and wake up to the enemies of our lives for centuries and their consistent and constant destructive behavior of violence towards us!

When i saw the audience i cracked up because of course thats why there were so many interruptions lol

Two words, “My man”.

I celebrate this young mans efforts and determination. Being from the midwest I was given a job in his hometown and thought, this is the most depressing city I have ever been in. He has done well and that is awesome

Brilliantly told, conceptually elegant! Now let's MAKE IT HAPPEN! REPARATIONS NOW!!!

"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

He ain't lying. I went from Rakim to George Lucas to Charles Bukowski. That's the gift of influence and knowledge. Edutainment for real. Lol

Stay On These Devils ( They Know Whom They Are ) Coates ... Stay Up In They #ss Humanity Hangs In The Balance .

Love this dude! Our new Cornell! ✊🏾

We were Prisoners of War,and we all didn't come from Africa, Says Dane Calloway

REVELATION 13:10 HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAPTIVITY ,SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY : HE THAT KILLETH WITH THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD , HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS

My family moved from Virginia to Connecticut in 1965 and there were no fire bombs. In fact my generation has done quite well for ourselves. Mr. Coates's comic books are hilarious.

He has a new fan, a new follower of his work! I don't know where I've been all this time!

Before Toni Morrison (when asked about influences), Ta-Nehisi mentions a novelist as one great influence. I am not a native speaker. Please help me spell out that novelist's name. My respects to Ta-Nehesi. You really touched me deeper... the way you changed the vocabulary: the tasked and the quality... mind shattering.... love it.

Great man

I want to be paid for our ''out of Africa'' trip, also I want some land in Africa, half of Johannesburg will do, thanks. Also a small town in Turkey for enslaving my nation and a small island in Greece for enslaving my nation, also houses all over Europe for the Roman Empire enslaving my people. That will do, thank you, thanks a lot, so kind!

Lord knows I love his mind, he's a vessel and doing the GOOD work. I pray for his life, family & gift that it only continues to GIVE.

Love Ta-Nehisi Coats! Can't wait to read his book "The Water Dancer"

Excellent video 👋🏿

dang why is Coates everywhere in my rec now? is it bc of the Superman movie thing?

True, our ancestors weren't slaves, they were enslaved.

Somebody will say the same about our generation, years from now.

Powerful and essential clarification. Often, ignorance is racist. Love and gratitude, Mr. Coates.

As an #ADOS, I personally would never consider spending money to tour neither USA plantations and their gift shops or any of the castles on the continent of Africa-which housed my enslaved ancestors awaiting their shipment to the Americas as SLAVES. I view it as an insult & sacrilege to my ancestors to charge their descendants to tour their torture grounds. Period. Plantations received our ancestors free labor & now they want their descendants to support plantation businesses. Pitiful!

Information is power

From Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates ... (in terms of American Writers )... Certainly Ta-Nehisi is a relevant Prophet of these times .. (a Most Significantly RELEVANT COMMUNICATOR of our present day ...) To use the ‘folly’ of prophecy to bring forth to the forefront of awareness what should be OBVIOUS (hence ‘folly’ of prophecy ... To Prophecy - means ‘To Preach ‘ ...) To communicate out right ... what aught to be obvious ... That is the significance of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT... Communicated right out ... An OUTCRY .... An ALERT 🚨 to Significance that needs to, and even DEMANDS to be noticed & EMPHASIZED !🙏🏽 Hearing this young brother is very encouraging to me ... Whatever produced &/or nurtured &/or nourished such a mind .... It is HEROICS TO THE RESCUE ... It is a SAVIOR issuing SALVATION ... “Guard well the avenues of the Heart (&/of Mind) for there flows all the issues of life.- Proverbs The assaults of & on the minds of those victimized by those who enslaved them . The worst brutalities are PSYCHOLOGICAL & SOCIAL It is so fitting a subject matter to address the aspects of terminologies ... ENSLAVED .... Enslaved SOULS ... Enslaved HUMAN BEINGS .... Enslaved PERSONS Enslaved CHILD OF GOD Enslaved members of SOULS CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD “Let us create Man in OUR IMAGE..,” (How much of Darwinism was RACISM...&/or RACIST ) Words do heal ... just as much as the do harm and bring injury to a life ... “For who shall call his brother a fool shall be in danger of hell’s fire 🔥...” But how much more , calling him INSIGNIFICANT SLAVE & (‘N... WORD’ ) ‘N’ Word - NONE SIGNIFICANT ENTITY A Man is a Soul Created in the Image of GOD ... by GOD A Royals Personage .... The Human Race was meant to be a DIVINE ROYAL RACE of Soul dedicated to the Highest Service of The LOVE of The CREATOR towards All HIS Creation 🙏🏽 But Brutal Bigotry has brought the nature of Man to the Nature worst than Brutal Beast ... (a Savage Brutal Beast devours what it consumes for a moment .... But what do we call the nature of brutality that becomes so SYSTEMATIC in INSTITUTIONALIZED ‘ETIQUETTE’ of DEMIZE towards members of the DIVINELY ROYAL RACE

He didn`t lie, nor did he exaggerate. His insights were keen, and he expressed them vividly, directly and truthfully, despite the fact that he was speaking to an almost entirely white audience. I learned some important things.

I like how he slighted the colonizers whom she stated were his influences in writing his book then he named his influences: Tony Morrison & Frederick Douglass and he paid them homage at the same time.❤✌🏾👊🏾

One of the most brilliant in our time.

I am ready to move on to the bigger realm of things that happened . It's still not an open dialogue to speak on . It's still closed shut by the Government. The story is told in such a fragmented way. There were so many stories because it applied to so many people from various places and directions . There has to be some sort of atonement .

Great . . . . discussion

Tranfer of wealth to whites is a good way of phraising it and what needs to be done is a withdrawal of those funds and given back to their rightful owners which is the the community that have been torn apart and held back for the whites weath health and comfort. Those who think it's a victom mentality should try and see it in the way that if you have a bank acct and the bank stold 20% of your money that you worked for and were ugeting for the well being and wealth of your family. You would dam sure raise hell about your money. You would not say oh well that happened yesterday and I shouldn't see myswlf as a victom of a crime.

Ya Nehisi getting in shape now that’s a real leader

Reparations: if your family lineage has been here for 150+ years and its verifiable your ancestors were in fact slaves - No income tax - Free college tuition - No property tax That might help out some people 🍻

Amnesia is not what they do,they don't forget, they change the story, in order to change it you remember just fine ,you just alter the parts you don't agree with.

Brilliant

Love this guy

This is not our first slavery.

I love the interviewer. Fascinating job! No question about Mr. Ta-Nahesi Coates.

Amazing dialogue, thank you, really needed to hear that.

“It always happened like this. This is what I had been told. Bored whites were barbarian whites. While they played at aristocrats, we were their well appointed and stoic attendants. But when they tired of dignity, the bottom fell out. New games were anointed and we were but pieces on the board. It was terrifying. There was no limit to what they might do at this end of the tether...” Excerpt from The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've always used the term Kidnapped Africans which is what the hell it was... Facts... Truth

Such a brilliant mind.

He’s such a powerful speaker. White people are still defending the Confederacy so slavery will never be a topic that gets old. It’s always relevant.

Thanks for this. Coates exudes wisdom. That said, the same thing is still going on in South America. To wit the coup in Bolivia where the indigenous majority has again been disenfranchised by US colonial interests and their wealthy tools in the country. What is Google doing about that? How far can public discourse be pushed in this regard becase national interest seems to go right against the spirit of this talk.

I quit using the word 'SLAVES' some years back exchanging it for enslaved peoples. Happy to meet a like minded .

I hope the word chattel was mentioned

Just as importantly necessary to address; is the description (master) is unfortunately still spoken in POLITE CONVERSATION when describing ENSLAVERS.

In the words of Dane Calloway we were not slaves but prisoners of war! I am not one who considers himself Black or African American but Indigenous Aboriginal American and that the majority of my people were already here.

Exactly. Ive been saying this for years but seems like people only listen when it's on KZfaq smh digital age i swear

15:00 separating children from guardians often occurs in the U.S. with U.S. citizens.... when parents are incarcerated ! Why should immigrants who go through a non-legal process have a better situation compared with U.S. citizens?

Beautiful brother . Thank you 💜💜💜 I will be getting your book

Really need to start screen shotting my comments because apparently my family's struggle isn't as bad as yours I guess?

I say this all the time. Why are the oppressors and the oppressed continuing to perpetuate this horribly misleading characterization of black people who were enslaved? This is not where their history began. Instead of calling them slaves we should put the emphasis on the criminal acts of others who enslaved them because they were not slaves, they were enslaved, it was a role that was forced on them by criminal acts.

No REPARATION NO VOTE, # ADOS THE BLACK VETERAN SC.

GALATIANS 6:7 BE NOT DECEIVED GOD IS NOT MOCKED FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP

This is so important, is there a way to get the captions edited so that the video will conform to accessibility standards. That way educators could use it in their classrooms.

I’m so tired of people comparing immigration to slavery

DEUTERONOMY 28:48 THEREFORE SHALT THOU SERVE THINE ENEMIES WHICH THE LORD SHALL SEND AGAINST THEE , IN HUNGER ,AND IN THIRST , AND IN NAKEDNESS ,AND IN THE WANT OF ALL THINGS : AND HE SHALL PUT A YOKE OF IRON UPON THY NECK , UNTIL HE HAVE DESTROYED THEE

There will be a pray day, " recompense I will repay ", says the Lord, he's the ultimate negotiator. Slave / enslaved / force free labor, they will be enslaved, for God said so. Killing us will make their time that much difficult, a thousand years.

#LifeStarr: spitting hot 🔥🔥🔥

What's the name of his book?

I mean that talking is dead 40 million black people , enslaved people need to drop out the America government system an an March to D.C. an they would free us 40 million of us here enslaved still can we do it ???

Enslave, literally means to make a slave 🤔

Well said sir 👏👏👍💞

I beg to differ, our ancestors were taken (some of which were slaves in their own countries in Africa), enslaved, and became slaves in this country. For every action (enslaved); there is a reaction, slavery! We are demystifying and softening a cruelty done to our people. Respectfully disagree with Mr. Coates.

God Bless Him.

Digs this Cat. Kinda reminds me of Evers!

16:39 Guaranteed many people dismiss the notion that he's intelligent; for this (double comparative) and that's yet another issue born of the politics of classism.

Been saying that for years, our people was not slaves but enslaved by force with guns that only European was privy to.

I think he is doing a good job of taking the power out of the word slave...but our ancestors where slaves they had no rights..no identity...when you are enslaved your just forced to do things you dont want to but you still know who you are...

Words Matter .... Terminologies Matter ..... and The Pen is still Mightier then The Sword 🙏🏽👍🏾 AMEN 🙏🏽!

Lets see, the definition of enslaved, means to make a slave of. Crazy that someone would try and use words in different ways to try and make something better because you dont want to accept the word slave. The guy says they were not slaves ,they were enslaved, but what does enslaved mean? It means to make a slave of. Im starting to believe that people are becoming more dumber by the day

Slaves are the Slavs which is a bloodline i.e. Polish, Irish, Dutch ect. We were never slaves but rather prisoners of war in exile in our own land. Check out the Anglo-Moroccan Alliance of the 1600s and years before that and you can and will see that we have a vast history as rulers who dominated the world.

let us be realistic,...Once you are enslaved........You become a slave!...... Both terms are not incorrect. they are synonymous. It is all how we wish to phrase it.........When your mind is truly free, it doesn't really matter what phrase you wish to use.......

Taxation without representation.