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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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Actively Ask Belong Country Freedom Long Participate Rooted
Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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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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After Bank Community Denied Opportunities People Right Wait Wealth
And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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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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Exploiter Made People Some
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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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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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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