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

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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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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 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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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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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