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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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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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 greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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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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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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