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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.

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 they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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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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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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