Far-left author Ta-Nehisi Coates continued his book tour on Thursday when he joined MSNBC’s Joy Reid on The ReidOut. Together, the duo would recall Coates’s trip to Senegal and lament the fact that people were doing “what, I guess, they do on the beach” outside of his hotel near an important historical landmark for the slave trade.
Reid began, “I just want to start with this, kind of, you tell these three stories, and the story in Senegal was heartbreaking in that it spoke to the colonization that remained trapped in the minds of even people on the continent, which is not something black folks think about. Talk about experiencing that.”
As Coates was speaking, MSNBC put up photos of the House of Slaves museum and memorial on the Senegalese island of Gorée just off of the capital city of Dakar, where it is believed by some that over a…
