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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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 mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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