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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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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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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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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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