To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
TA-NEHISI COATESI would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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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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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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