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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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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 more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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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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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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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I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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, among other things.
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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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