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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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Black Destroy Dispoortioante Necessitate Number Them
What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Lead National Reckoning Renewal Spiritual Talk
Racism is, among other things.
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Among Group Other Racism Skepticism Thing
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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Always Between Condition Difference First Government Head Many Neighbourhood Place Responsible Schmo Way
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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Basically Corner Dude Hang Me Mom Phrase Phrases Radio Use
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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After Bank Community Denied Opportunities People Right Wait Wealth
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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Geometry Impossible Life Master One Shape Strange Suddenly World
Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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Always Deprecating Meaning Often Other Self Spoken Take
Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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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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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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