With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
TA-NEHISI COATESAny time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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