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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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 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 would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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Racism is, among other things.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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.
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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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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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