These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
TA-NEHISI COATESSegregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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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I 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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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