I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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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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