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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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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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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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