Ta-Nehisi Coates on whether Democrats are falling short with Black voters | UpFront
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With less than a week until the 2024 Presidential elections, former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump is facing backlash from ramping up racist and sexist rhetoric against his Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris.
In 2016, award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in The Atlantic that Trump was “America’s first white president” and “the most dangerous president” because “his ideology is white supremacy.”
In light of all this tension, how is Coates viewing the current divisive political and cultural moment? And is the Democratic party effectively appealing to Black voters?
In this UpFront web extra, Marc Lamont Hill discusses the 2024 presidential elections with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
