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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.

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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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