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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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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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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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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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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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