Sublime

but it’s the same old ‘Keep the Colored man down’ world here.

The striking similarity between the social position of Jesus in Palestine and that of the vast majority of American Negroes is obvious to anyone who tarries long over the facts. We are dealing here with conditions that produce essentially the same psychology. There is meant no further comparison.

He and his colleagues found that as a person’s level of wealth increases, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, while feelings of entitlement and an ideology of self-interest increase.

Throughout black history Scripture was used for a definition of God and Jesus that was consistent with the black struggle for liberation.

Jefferson in his racist generosity allowed that some infusion of European ancestry afforded Africans somewhat greater capacity, but it is quite clear he would have found me, credibly 81 percent African, lacking. I hold instead to what W. E. B. Du Bois said: “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balz

W. E. B. Du Bois

“Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it’s because they are witnesses.”

What a remarkable figure, no? A crippled slave who acquires an education, becomes a free man, establishes his own school, is exiled by one emperor but is on friendly terms with another, and selflessly helps a young child near the end of a simple life that will continue until the very ripe age, especially for the time, of eighty. Oh, and most import

At home, Wilson’s racial policies disgraced the office he held.