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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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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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 know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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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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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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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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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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