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    How to Talk About the Truth and Trump at Thanksgiving

    If we are serious about bringing Americans together, the work has to start with our own families.
    by Ibram X. Kendi Nov 27, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Corbis / Getty / Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock / The Atlantic

    Between bites of ham, he is always liable to say it.

    “The New York Knicks will never ever win the NBA championship!” my uncle jabs seemingly every year, mouth full, at the Thanksgiving table. The last time the Knicks were professional basketball champions was in 1973, nine years before my birth. I am a resolute Knicks fan and a vegan. Unc despises both.

    “Soooo if the Knicks win the championship, will you become a vegan?” I ask.

    “Them boys will never win. You got me. Never! I will never become a began!”

    I laugh. Unc cuts a smile as wide as the uncut turkey. I defend the Knicks and the vegans. The argument carries on like helpings of baked macaroni and cheese until someone serves Ma’s silencing peach cobbler.

    Bellies full, we start getting serious. We start talking politics. And to talk politics, in

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