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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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Racism is, among other things.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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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