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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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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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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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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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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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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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