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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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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 want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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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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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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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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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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