Racism is, among other things.
TA-NEHISI COATESRacism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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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 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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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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