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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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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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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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