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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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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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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 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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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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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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