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.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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