With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
TA-NEHISI COATESI think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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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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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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 Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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 mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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