[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett
b'Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends \\u2014 and not spare the hard truths. \\u201cCan you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they\\u2019re encouraged to see their history critically?\\u201d he asks. Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He\\u2019s with us in a conversation that is joyful, hard, kind, soaring, and down-to-earth all at once. He spoke with Krista as part of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival.\\n\\nThis interview originally aired in November 2017.'