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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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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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