Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
TA-NEHISI COATES
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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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates 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.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Talk about class and hope no one notices.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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