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dce726b
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I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.
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blackness
race-and-racism-in-america
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Toni Morrison |
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1c57427
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Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are--and I say this with big pride--the progeny of slaves. If there's any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origins and the great distance we've traveled since. Ditto for the dreams of a separate but noble past. Cosby's, and much of black America's, conservative analysis flattens history and smooths over the wrinkles that have characterized black America since its inception.
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culture
political-philosophy
race-and-racism-in-america
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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300c74e
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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darren-hunt
demographics-of-united-states
eric-garner
human-rights-day
humanity
kajieme-powell
killing-of-black-men-in-america
mass-incarceration
michael-brown
post-racial-america
prison-reform
race-and-racism-in-america
race-relations
racial-profiling
tamir-rice
trayvon-martin
troy-anthony-davis
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Aberjhani |
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281de5a
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"It's because of my grandfather that I became a Young Avenger. But it's hard sometimes, to be a black kid carrying a name like "Patriot". I remember talking to Captain America about before he died, and he explained what Patriotism meant to him... It wasn't about blindly supporting your government. It was about knowing what your country could be, what it should be... And trying to lead it there through your example. And holding it accountable when it failed. I remember he said: "There's noting patriotic about corruption or cover-ups... or defending them. But exposing them, well, that takes a hero."
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captain-america
comics
corruption
cover-ups
eli
elijah-bradley
equality
heroism
non-conformism
patriot
patriotism
race-and-racism-in-america
young-avengers
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Ed Brubaker |
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a552d06
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.
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democracy
demographics-of-united-states
diversity
equality
eric-garner
freedom
george-zimmerman
happiness
human-rights-day
justice
kajieme-powell
killing-of-black-men-in-america
mass-incarceration
michael-brown
new-jim-crow
pursuit-of-happiness
race-and-racism-in-america
racial-demographics
racial-discrimination
racism
tamir-rice
trayvon-martin
troy-anthony-davis
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Aberjhani |
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17083aa
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It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.
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identity
identity-confusion
identity-crisis
individualism
race-and-racism-in-america
race-relations
racism
racism-and-culture
racism-in-america
respect
respectability
self-actualization
self-esteem
self-respect
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James Baldwin |
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58bc682
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No one in the world -- in the entire world -- know more -- knows Americans better or, odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit you, deal with you, and bear you, and sometimes even bleed and die with you, ever since we got here, that is, since both of us, black and white, got here -- and this is a wedding. Whether I like it or not, or whether you like it or not, we are bound together forever. We are part of each other.
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race-and-racism-in-america
race-relations
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James Baldwin |
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2e3a972
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Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be?
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race-and-racism-in-america
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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6a41ecf
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My enlightened racial consciousness demands that I reject the so-called greatness of William Faulkner and William Shakespeare. I don't have time for any of that Hamlet jive -- but Marvel superheroes are super cool.
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race-and-racism-in-america
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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2761d28
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I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us--Christians, Muslims, atheists--lived in this fear of this truth.
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race-and-racism-in-america
religion
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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09a1745
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All white people, I think, are implicated in these things so long as we participate in America in a normal way and attempt to go on leading normal lives while any one race is being cheated and tormented. But I now believe that we will probably go on leading our normal lives, and will go on participating in our nation in a normal way, unless there comes a time where Negroes can compel us by methods of extraordinary pressure to interrupt our pleasure.
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equality
jonathan-kozol
race
race-and-racism-in-america
race-relations
white
white-people
white-privilege
white-supremacy
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Jonathan Kozol |
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7fd5125
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To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed to remind black people of their place, a word to reinforce a perception of inferiority. I have no interest in using the word to describe myself or any person of color, under any circumstance. There is no reclamation to be had.
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race-and-racism-in-america
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Roxane Gay |
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d114ceb
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"That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then, well, there's just no telling what they'd do to us." "Who?" Lily asked. "Why, honey, the niggers and our husbands both. I don't care what color they are; men build up steam. And they gotta let it out somewhere. Colored men. White men. They both crazy. Honey, the point is you gotta look at it this way: A whole lotta women can't, "I got a man who'll kill for me." "
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gender
masculinity
race
race-and-racism-in-america
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Bebe Moore Campbell |
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0bb0354
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Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.
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nonfiction
race-and-racism-in-america
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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73dc162
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One ever feels his two-ness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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race-and-racism-in-america
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
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d540c9c
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That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.
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race-and-racism-in-america
religion
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James Baldwin |
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3515de2
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...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...
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race-and-racism-in-america
ta-nehisi-coates
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James Baldwin |