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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.”

51. “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: “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.”

52. “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: “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: “Slavery was not a necessary ingredient for the founders’ belief in Republican equality, Morgan writes, but in Virginia and the other Southern colonies, it proved the ingredient. It is, therefore, not incidental that ten of this nation’s first twelve presidents were enslavers. In fact, some might argue that this nation was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy.”

54. “Slavery was not a necessary ingredient for the founders’ belief in Republican equality, Morgan writes, but in Virginia and the other Southern colonies, it proved the ingredient. It is, therefore, not incidental that ten of this nation’s first twelve presidents were enslavers. In fact, some might argue that this nation was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy.”

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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.”

55. “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: “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.”

56. “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: “Your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side.”60.”

57. “Your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side.”60.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Around the time of her death, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that Black Americans were 1.4 times more likely than white ones to contract the virus, 3.2 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 2.8 times more likely to die.”

58. “Around the time of her death, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that Black Americans were 1.4 times more likely than white ones to contract the virus, 3.2 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 2.8 times more likely to die.”

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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.”

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

60. “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.”

61. “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: “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.”

62. “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: “But it would be historically inaccurate to reduce the contributions of Black people to the vast material wealth created by our bondage. Black Americans have also been, and continue to be, foundational to the idea of American freedom. More than any other group in this country’s history, we have served, generation after generation, in an overlooked but vital role: it is we who have been the perfecters of this democracy.”

63. “But it would be historically inaccurate to reduce the contributions of Black people to the vast material wealth created by our bondage. Black Americans have also been, and continue to be, foundational to the idea of American freedom. More than any other group in this country’s history, we have served, generation after generation, in an overlooked but vital role: it is we who have been the perfecters of this democracy.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “This remarkable imperviousness to facts when it comes to white advantage and architected Black disadvantage is what emboldens some white Americans to quote the passage from Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech about being judged by the content of your character and not by the color of your skin.”

64. “This remarkable imperviousness to facts when it comes to white advantage and architected Black disadvantage is what emboldens some white Americans to quote the passage from Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech about being judged by the content of your character and not by the color of your skin.”

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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.”

65. “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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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”

66. “White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”

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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.”

67. “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: “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.”

68. “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 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.”

69. “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.”

70. “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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