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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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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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