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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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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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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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