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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Until we come to terms with the discrimination and inequality in American medicine, Black people will continue to be harmed by the very system that’s supposed to take care of them. That is how Black people get killed.”

51. “Until we come to terms with the discrimination and inequality in American medicine, Black people will continue to be harmed by the very system that’s supposed to take care of them. That is how Black people get killed.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Reagan and other officials quickly realized there was a political gold mine in white fear. Identifying African Americans as criminals, “thugs,” and “mad dogs” and as an imminent threat to white communities, white lives, and white prosperity allowed the racialized “public safety” policies of Jim Crow to survive in the post–Civil Rights era.”

52. “Reagan and other officials quickly realized there was a political gold mine in white fear. Identifying African Americans as criminals, “thugs,” and “mad dogs” and as an imminent threat to white communities, white lives, and white prosperity allowed the racialized “public safety” policies of Jim Crow to survive in the post–Civil Rights era.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Eight in ten Black people would not be in the United States were it not for the institution of slavery in a society founded on ideals of freedom.”

53. “Eight in ten Black people would not be in the United States were it not for the institution of slavery in a society founded on ideals of freedom.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “A study of 222 white medical students and residents published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 showed that half of the students and residents endorsed at least one false idea about biological differences between Black people and white people, including that Black people’s nerve endings are less sensitive than those of white people.”

54. “A study of 222 white medical students and residents published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 showed that half of the students and residents endorsed at least one false idea about biological differences between Black people and white people, including that Black people’s nerve endings are less sensitive than those of white people.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “America has a way of dancing with its own delusion.”

55. “America has a way of dancing with its own delusion.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States.”

56. “By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Recognizing the unbroken links between slavery, Black Codes, lynching, and our current era of mass incarceration is essential.”

57. “Recognizing the unbroken links between slavery, Black Codes, lynching, and our current era of mass incarceration is essential.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “If the formerly enslaved and their descendants became educated, if we thrived in the jobs white people did, if we excelled in the sciences and arts, then the entire rationale for how this nation had allowed slavery would collapse.”

58. “If the formerly enslaved and their descendants became educated, if we thrived in the jobs white people did, if we excelled in the sciences and arts, then the entire rationale for how this nation had allowed slavery would collapse.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “I wanted people to know the date 1619 and to contemplate what it means that slavery predates nearly every other institution in the United States.”

59. “I wanted people to know the date 1619 and to contemplate what it means that slavery predates nearly every other institution in the United States.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “And yet the 2019 Washington Post poll found that despite their meager knowledge of slavery, two-thirds of Americans believe that the legacy of slavery still affects our society today. They can see and feel the truth of this fact – they just haven’t learned a history that helps them understand how and why.12.”

60. “And yet the 2019 Washington Post poll found that despite their meager knowledge of slavery, two-thirds of Americans believe that the legacy of slavery still affects our society today. They can see and feel the truth of this fact – they just haven’t learned a history that helps them understand how and why.12.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.”

61. “School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The long sweep of America has been defined by two forward motions: one force widening the embrace of Black Americans and another force maintaining or widening their exclusion. The duel between these two forces represents the duel at the heart of America’s racial history.”

62. “The long sweep of America has been defined by two forward motions: one force widening the embrace of Black Americans and another force maintaining or widening their exclusion. The duel between these two forces represents the duel at the heart of America’s racial history.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “In several Southern counties, mortgages taken out on enslaved workers injected more capital into the economy than sales from the crops harvested by workers themselves. Global financial markets had powered the slave economy for years. When Thomas Jefferson mortgaged his enslaved workers in 1796 to build Monticello, it was a Dutch firm that put up most of the money.”

63. “In several Southern counties, mortgages taken out on enslaved workers injected more capital into the economy than sales from the crops harvested by workers themselves. Global financial markets had powered the slave economy for years. When Thomas Jefferson mortgaged his enslaved workers in 1796 to build Monticello, it was a Dutch firm that put up most of the money.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Slavery persisted, and grew, protected by the argument that it was going away.”

64. “Slavery persisted, and grew, protected by the argument that it was going away.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The relentless buying, selling, insuring, and financing of their bodies and the products of their forced labor would help make Wall Street a thriving banking, insurance, and trading sector, and New York City a financial capital of the world.13.”

65. “The relentless buying, selling, insuring, and financing of their bodies and the products of their forced labor would help make Wall Street a thriving banking, insurance, and trading sector, and New York City a financial capital of the world.13.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The number of enslaved Africans swelled by 70 percent, from 697,681 in the first federal census of 1790 to 1,191,362 in 1810, and more than tripled over the next fifty years.23.”

66. “The number of enslaved Africans swelled by 70 percent, from 697,681 in the first federal census of 1790 to 1,191,362 in 1810, and more than tripled over the next fifty years.23.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The wealth and prominence that allowed Jefferson, at just thirty-three, and the other founding fathers to believe they could successfully break off from one of the mightiest empires in the world came in part from the dizzying profits generated by chattel slavery. So they also understood that abolition would have upended the economies of both the North and the South.”

67. “The wealth and prominence that allowed Jefferson, at just thirty-three, and the other founding fathers to believe they could successfully break off from one of the mightiest empires in the world came in part from the dizzying profits generated by chattel slavery. So they also understood that abolition would have upended the economies of both the North and the South.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The American Civil War was not exceptional in these regards but the history of the slaves’ war within the Civil War remains to be fully told.”

68. “The American Civil War was not exceptional in these regards but the history of the slaves’ war within the Civil War remains to be fully told.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “We were told once, by virtue of our bondage, that we could never be American. But it is by virtue of our bondage that we became the most American of all.”

69. “We were told once, by virtue of our bondage, that we could never be American. But it is by virtue of our bondage that we became the most American of all.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “And yet none of this is part of our founding mythology, which conveniently omits the fact that one of the primary reasons some of the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”

70. “And yet none of this is part of our founding mythology, which conveniently omits the fact that one of the primary reasons some of the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”

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