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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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 think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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