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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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