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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.

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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.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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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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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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 the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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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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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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