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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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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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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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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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