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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

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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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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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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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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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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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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