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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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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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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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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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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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