To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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