I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
TA-NEHISI COATESYou 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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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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 greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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