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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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