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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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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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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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