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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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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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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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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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