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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.

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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 think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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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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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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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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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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 essence of American racism is disrespect.
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