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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.

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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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