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.
TA-NEHISI COATESSegregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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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