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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.

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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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