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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. 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

I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. 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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Country, Past, White
"Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 21, 2014.

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Country, Years, People
Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015). “Between the World and Me”, p.48, Spiegel & Grau

I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Country, Thinking, Long
Source: www.pbs.org

This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Country, People, African American
Source: www.pbs.org

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Country, Land, America

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

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
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.

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.

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

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