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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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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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