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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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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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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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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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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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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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