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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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