Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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, among other things.
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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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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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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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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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