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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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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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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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