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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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 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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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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