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The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.

Benjamin Jealous

Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn’t change the old racial order.
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Affirm Father Growing Love
It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation’s police departments.
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Communities Discourse National Needed Resources
In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you’ve got to start with the beginning of life. You’ve got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You’ve got to deal with the next stage of life.
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Jobs Opportunity School
White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.
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Challenge Families Figure People Think White
Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one’s feet.
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Eye Hair Lying Skin Somehow
We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.
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Country People School
The U.S. Constitution contains no right for a child to go to school, let alone for a child to go to a good school. And yet, we know that if they don’t go to a good school, they’re less likely to be able to realize all that this country has to offer.
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Child Constituation Good Know School
You’ve got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.
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Access Build Healthcare Make Opportunity Sure
I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.
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Create Improve Longer Make Need Old Racial Stock
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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Class Conviction Country Great
Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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Family Nurture Practice Values
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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Civil Equality Government Rights
The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition.
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People Thinking White
I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
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Dream Impossible Kids
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.
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Leveraged Rights Upon Vote
When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we’re selling ourselves short.
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Selling Somebody Tough Use

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