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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

[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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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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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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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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Racism is, among other things.
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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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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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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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