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’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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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.

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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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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.

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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.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.

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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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[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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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.

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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.

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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.

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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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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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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.

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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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