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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.

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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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 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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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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