I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
TA-NEHISI COATESHumans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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Racism is, among other things.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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