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“George Washington wasn’t moonlighting as a slave holder. That was their career. That was how they garnered the resources to go off and do these other great things that we so admire and we praise.”
Bill McKibben • The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are. “I’m suppos
... See moreColson Whitehead • The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Born in Mississippi on October 6,
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
foreign powers
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Black liberation theology.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
America is divided against itself because they don’t want us [Black people] to have even the ballot here in Mississippi. If we had been treated right all these years, they wouldn’t be afraid for us to get the ballot.”75