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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.

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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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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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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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