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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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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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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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