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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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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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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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