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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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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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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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