These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
TA-NEHISI COATESAnd 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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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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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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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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 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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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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