Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
TA-NEHISI COATESThe Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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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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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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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