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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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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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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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