In this Joy Reid Show clip, Joy Reid sits down with award-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates for his Joy Reid Show debut to discuss his landmark Vanity Fair essay, "The Next Black President." Together they wrestle with one of the hardest questions in American politics: can a Black president truly challenge empire, or does the office itself demand complicity in it? Coates traces the history of Black faces in American imperialism from Condoleezza Rice to Colin Powell to Barack Obama and asks what it really means for Kamala Harris to run again. They also dig into Palestine as a Black struggle, the moral cost of asking Arab and Palestinian Americans to vote for an administration that funded the deaths of their families, why the Democratic Party's unconditional support for Israel is a political dead end, and why Coates believes a pro-Israel Democrat simply cannot win the next primary.