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The essence of American racism is disrespect.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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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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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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