The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
TA-NEHISI COATESThese were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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