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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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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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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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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 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.
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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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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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