Racism Made America a Failed State, Just Like Its Greatest Mind Predicted
In order to cash in on the privileges and benefits of white supremacy, white people must fear, disown, demean, ignore, dehumanize, exoticize, murder, incarcerate, and segregate ourselves from the majority of humanity.
10 ways white supremacy wounds white people: A tale of mutuality
“The American people are infected with racism—that is the peril,” King concluded. “Paradoxically, they are also infected with democratic ideals—that is the hope.”
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
His worldliness thrilled the Americans who voted for him and who viewed his election as the dawn of a new America, one that gloried in its diverse, multicultural character. But to millions of whites who were already feeling as though they were being left behind by declining opportunities and by the rising status of people of color both in the
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