Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates latest piece for The Atlantic, "My President Was Black," is an expansive conversation with former president Barack Obama leading up to November's election, and Coates stopped by Late Night with Seth Myers to reveal what the process of asking the president for interviews was like.
In conversation with Meyers, the award-winning journalist also delved a bit into the functions of optimism in the White House, Obama's unique past that landed him in the Oval Office in the first place and the double standards that make it unimaginable to ever see black Donald Trump.
