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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our 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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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