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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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Racism is, among other things.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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