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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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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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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 the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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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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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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 a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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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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