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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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[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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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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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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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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