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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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