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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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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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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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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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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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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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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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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Racism is, among other things.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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