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

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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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[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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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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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 best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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