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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 am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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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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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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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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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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