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I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
We know that gun violence disproportionately affects Black people in this country, and that was no exception with my son Jordan.
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.
It's built into the fabric of this country, you know - oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of go hand in hand.
In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my country where black oppresses black.
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All lives should indeed matter, but we have a systemic problem in this country in which black lives do not matter enough.
A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.
For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or you see an American flag as an African American person who has experienced the effects of that dehumanizing existence, it's not going to mean the same.
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.
I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.