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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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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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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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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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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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