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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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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.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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