I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
TA-NEHISI COATESI am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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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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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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