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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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Belive Day Field Pioneer Powerfully
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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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Actively Ask Belong Country Freedom Long Participate Rooted
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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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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Black Chain Follow Forget Free Generation Knew Nothing Year
Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our 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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Bully Corner Knowledge Men Rule World
The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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Actually Always Embarrassment Folk Future Really Small Sound Symbolism
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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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Live Myth Seriously Taken World

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