“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“As late as 1950, the National Association of Real Estate Boards’ code of ethics warned that “a Realtor should never be instrumental… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had no meaning for me. The truth was in the everything that came… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“When presidential candidate Barack Obama presented himself to the black community, he was not to be believed. It strained credulity to think… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Liberals today mostly view racism not as an active, distinct evil but as a relative of white poverty and inequality. They ignore… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is a kind… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I drove away, as always, thinking of you. I do not believe that we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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