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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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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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