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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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[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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