Woke activist author Ta-Nehisi Coates suggested Wednesday that he would not have been above participating in Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel had he been born and raised in Gaza.
Speaking on Trevor Noah’s “What Now?” podcast, Coates said he didn’t know if he was “strong enough or even constructed in such a way” to say that the attacks of October 7 were “too far.”
“I haven’t said this out loud, but I think about it a lot,” Coates said.” Were I 20 years old, born into Gaza, which is a giant open-air jail…if my mother picks the olive trees and she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot…and I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far? I don’t know that I am,” Coates said.
Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests he’s not above taking part in an…
