To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
TA-NEHISI COATES[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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