And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
TA-NEHISI COATESLot 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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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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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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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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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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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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’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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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