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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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 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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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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