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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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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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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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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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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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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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