Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
TA-NEHISI COATES
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Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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 CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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