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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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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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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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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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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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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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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