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.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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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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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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