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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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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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And I think, like, there’s a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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