Ta-Nehisi Coates is opening up about his much-talked about CBS Mornings interview. Coates discussed the controversial interview in a trailer for the next episode of the What Now? with Trevor Noah podcast, suggesting that host Tony Dokoupil "commandeering" the interview didn't serve his colleagues Gayle King and Nate Burleson well.
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00:00But man, we haven't been able to stop talking about the CBS interview.
00:07Ta-Nehisi Coates is opening up about his much-talked-about CBS morning interview.
00:12Coates discussed the controversial interview in a trailer for the next episode of the What Now
00:16with Trevor Noah podcast, suggesting that host Tony DeCoppol, commandeering the interview,
00:21didn't serve his colleagues Gil King and Nate Burleson well.
00:25I don't think you understand the shockwave that interview created,
00:29not because of what you said, but because of the way people felt like you were treated.
00:33Noah zeroed in on one particular moment from DeCoppol during the CBS interview.
00:37Imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards and the acclaim,
00:42took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away, the content of that section
00:46would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.
00:50Coates said,
00:51I love all of those awards and accolades, but they're not really me,
00:54so okay, you take them away, it's fine. You know what I mean? I'm still me.
00:58Coates added that he was prepared for the criticism he would face for the message.
01:02I knew this was coming, and I figured at some point it was going to be a fight.
01:06I didn't know it was going to be right then, but I figured at some point it was going to be a fight.
01:09Coates also indicated that King was thoroughly prepared,
01:12though ultimately didn't get to ask any questions.
01:15While on the one hand, he probably did me a service,
01:19you know what I mean, by just kind of commandeering that interview,
01:22I don't think he did Nate and Gayle a service, and I'm really, really sorry for them.
01:28The full Ta-Nehisi Coates episode of What Now with Trevor Noah drops on October 10.
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