Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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