What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
TA-NEHISI COATESSegregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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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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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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