Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘Every Single African-American Is a Child of Sexual Violence’

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COATES: “There is great, not always spoken shame in the black community over the kind of physical traumas we have endured. You have to understand, man, every single one of us, every single African-American is a child of sexual violence. All of us. All of us. There is not a single pure African, African American who came through. There is an amount of humiliation in that. There is an amount of humiliation in watching — and I have written about this, you know, films from the ’60s and watching these kids and these children’s get beaten by the cops. There is humiliation in watching today, you know what I mean?”