Eddie Glaude Wants You to “Tell the Truth With Love, Lit by Rage”
6/29/202648 min
Eddie Glaude believes that, “if we're not angry about our current moment, something's wrong.” Bonded by their experiences covering some of the nation’s most haunting modern stories, the author and Princeton professor joins Nicolle to speak candidly about America as it approaches its 250th anniversary — its complicated history and the sweeping wave of white nationalism surging across it. He touches on his new book, “America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries,” whose first sentence is an assertion of his position: “I do not love America, and never have, especially now." Glaude tells Nicolle that, unlike James Baldwin — who insisted on the right to criticize America because he loved her — he does not “begin with love” when thinking about the nation, and asks a poignant question rooted in his experience as a Black man in America: “Why would you think I would love the country, given my formation?” And yet, however disillusioned, he has hope. “The power of America has always been in its people,” he says. “We just need to get clear on who those people are.”
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Eddie Glaude· Guest0:58
America suffers from a kind of divided soul, this double consciousness. We imagine ourselves as a beacon of freedom and as a white republic, and you can't be both without depositing a kind of madness at the heart of the country. And then there are the folks who have to bear the brunt of the madness.
Nicolle Wallace· Host1:14
[upbeat music] Hi there, everyone. There is no one with whom I have shared more of the history of the last 10 years on live television than this week's guest. From tragic breaking news stories to devastating political outcomes