My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
TA-NEHISI COATESTalk about class and hope no one notices.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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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 mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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