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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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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.
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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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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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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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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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