If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
TA-NEHISI COATESThirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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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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