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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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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 mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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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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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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