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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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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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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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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