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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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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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