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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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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 President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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