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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Writing about American violence is hard because there's so much of it!"
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1:27Now PlayingTa-Nehisi Coates went on Hasan Minhaj's show to talk about American empire and his recent essay in Vanity Fair magazine. Coates lamented how daunting it is to write about America's history of militarized violence...because there's so much of it you can't fit it in! Dr. Van Jackson struggled with the same problem in a recent essay for Dame Magazine. Here's a taste of what that looks like.
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