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The essence of American racism is disrespect.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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[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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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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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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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