[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett
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.