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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 would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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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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