Ta-Nehisi Coates - “The Message” & Understanding the Humiliation of Oppression | The Daily Show

Thanks for not being CBS!

So interesting and informative to hear an African American and a Jewish American converse so openly and intelligently about their cultures and our current reality. Great interview. 🙏

Ta-Nehisi, thank you for speaking up for the oppressed Palestinians 🇵🇸

As an Irish man I rage how could we have allowed the Famine here in 1847, there was load of food but we Irish were enslaved people living on one crop Potatoes. When you are hungry you are weak, when you see your children die you feel hopeless. I feel for the people of Gaza

Just heard him being interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR this afternoon and I was blown away! In fact, I sat in my car for 20 minutes to hear the whole thing. What a teacher. What a father. What a human being. What an American treasure.

I loved it when Coates argued that what's HAPPENED BEFORE, DOESN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

The Daily Show and Comedy Central are so far ahead of where the rest of mainstream media should be that it's beyond embarrassing. This is exactly the kind of conversation that almost everyone wants to watch. These are the kinds of conversations that our world needs in order to work through the issues we are dealing with. And then you tune in to CNN, MSNBC, CBC, BBC, etc. and it's a joke. They are just spinning their wheels worried about ratings and ad sales; instead of fostering conversations that matter.

I’m Jewish. Mr. Coates is a brilliant and sensitive mind. He has my profound respect.

I love the "your oppression will not save you" component. Victimhood doesn't equal virtue, very insightful and yet validated the humiliation. So important.

This is the third book that I have read by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He pushes me to see the world in a different way, and I learn so much from him. I can't wait to share The Message with my students, and watch their eyes widen with learning, wisdom, and insight from such a skilled writer of our times. I am grateful for his Message....and I loved this interview. Thanks, Jon Stewart!