Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
TA-NEHISI COATES[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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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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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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