When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
TA-NEHISI COATESI think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Racism is, among other things.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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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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I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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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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