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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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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 think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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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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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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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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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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