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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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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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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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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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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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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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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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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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