To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
TA-NEHISI COATESI think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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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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[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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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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 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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