The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money,...
- What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders....
- The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and...
- Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that...
- What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is...
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