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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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