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.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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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