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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.

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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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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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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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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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[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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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.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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 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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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