Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
TA-NEHISI COATESAn 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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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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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 the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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