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Ta-Nehisi Coates: 1935 Ineligible
on Tuesday, October 31, 2023Meaning of Ta-Nehisi Coates Money Quote: saying When Social Security signed 1935, 56-80 percent African Americans Ineligible. Ta-Nehisi Coates said:
“When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans nationally and between 70 and 80 percent in the South were ineligible” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Race Measured Different
on Friday, December 23, 2016Ta-Nehisi Coates Money Quote saying racists measure a man differently depending on his race and hold whites to lower standards than those required of other races. So Trump was elected. Ta-Nehisi Coates said:
![How racism works. To be president, [Obama] had to be scholarly, intelligent, president of the Harvard Law Review, the product of some of our greatest educational institutions, capable of talking to two different worlds ... Donald Trump had to be rich and white. That was it. That’s the difference Quote](https://itsamoneything.com/money/wp-content/uploads/Ta-Nehisi-Coates-Racism-Obama-Intelligent-Trump-Rich-White.jpg)
“How racism works. To be president, [Obama] had to be scholarly, intelligent, president of the Harvard Law Review, the product of some of our greatest educational institutions, capable of talking to two different worlds … Donald Trump had to be rich and white. That was it. That’s the difference” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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