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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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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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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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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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