Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes - Page 2

• Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. 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. - Ta

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  País, Tierra, América

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• Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. 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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  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

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  Men, Bully, World

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2008). “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood”, p.66, Spiegel & Grau

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• The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

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  Country, Brutality, Rewards

  "Letter to My Son" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. July 4, 2015.

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• Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

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  Government, People, Black

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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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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  Mistake, Mean, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Lot 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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  Country, Dumb, Idiot

  "15 Powerful Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Quotes To Make You Want To Read 'Between The World And Me'" by Aaron Barksdale, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2015.

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• Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

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  Carrera

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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, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.

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  Numbers, Years, Black

  "Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body'" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2015.

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• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. 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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  Country, Color, America

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.144, One World

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• [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

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  Crow, Hawaii, Segregation

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Eran los días en que creía firmemente que Breyers y Entenmann's eran pioneros en el campo de los antidepresivos.

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  Pioneers, Fields, Antidepressants

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• Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible. You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there's some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.

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  Morning, Drinking, Home

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

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  Thinking, My Own

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Creo que el presidente [Barack Obama] adoptó parte de ese mismo lenguaje, pero lo llevó a la Casa Blanca. Y creo que hay una diferencia crucial entre ser, ya sabes, Joe Schmo en el barrio y ser el jefe, ya sabes, del gobierno que, ya sabes, en muchos sentidos es en gran parte responsable de esas condiciones en primer lugar.

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  Pensamiento, Gobierno, Blanco

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Creo que el Presidente [Barack] Obama subestimó profundamente la fuerza de la supremacía blanca en la vida estadounidense.

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  Thinking, White, President

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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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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  Mom, Phrases, Use

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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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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  Mother, Two, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Fue una semana después de que Donald Trump hubiera ganado. Y al principio todavía era optimista. Él sentía que las cosas estarían bien en última instancia. Y tengo que decirte, esta es el área donde, ya sabes, veo, ya sabes, cierto grado de contradicción. El presidente dijo en campaña que Donald Trump no estaba cualificado para dirigir un 7-Eleven.

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  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• No sé cómo salvar esa contradicción, pero sentí que Barack Obama era sincero. No me pareció una línea. Me pareció que volvía a lo que tenía en los huesos y eso es, ya sabes, optimismo y una profunda creencia en las instituciones americanas y en el pueblo americano.

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  Bridges, People, Optimism

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• [Ganar la Casa Blanca fue un logro], pero como afroamericano, [Barack Obama], creo que el simbolismo está en cómo se comportó. El simbolismo estaba en - y esto suena muy, muy pequeño, pero en realidad es grande para los afroamericanos - el simbolismo no estaba en ser una vergüenza, sino en ser una figura de la que la gente estaba realmente orgullosa.

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  Winning, Thinking, Symbolism

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

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  Reading, Thinking, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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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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  Community, African American, Patronizing

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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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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  African American, Way, Flip

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

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  Voting, Demographics, Percent

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