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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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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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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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