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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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 think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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