And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
TA-NEHISI COATESWhen nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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Racism is, among other things.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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