
Saved by Lael Johnson and
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Saved by Lael Johnson and
As leftists have argued for years, the only true racists are people with the power systematically to oppress others. […] They simultaneously depict white trash as dumb as oak sap, yet able to pull off an intercontinental conspiracy that enslaved most of the melanin-rich world.
“It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”
In the seventeenth century, for example, at least twenty percent of the merchandise on every slave ship died. By that I mean the dark-skinned people who were being transported for sale, to Virginia, say. And that didn’t get anyone upset or make headlines in the Virginia papers or make anyone go out and call for the ship captain to be hanged. But if
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