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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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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 think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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