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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.

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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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 was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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