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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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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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[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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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.
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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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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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