Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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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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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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