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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

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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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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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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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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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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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 scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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