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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” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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