The essence of American racism is disrespect.
TA-NEHISI COATES
TA-NEHISI COATES
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Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates [E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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