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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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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 scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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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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