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This notion that somebody like Jack Welch, some billionaire or whoever, someone has something to tell us about how a state should secure the rights and happiness for the most people, but it is insane. But that's the Democratic position right now. And when you have that, it becomes extremely, you know, difficult to do things on the behalf, you know,
... See moreour system of civil rights law and enforcement ensures that racial progress occurs at just the right slow pace. Too slow would make minorities impatient and risk destabilization; too fast could jeopardize important material and psychic benefits for elite groups. When the gap between our ideals and practices becomes too great, the system produces a
... See moreRichard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris (Foreword) • Critical Race Theory
submit that this is what the real, no‑bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.6 Wallace’s
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Land-poor white rural people saw Jackson as the man who would save them, making land available to them by ridding it of Indians, thereby setting the pattern of the dance between poor and rich US Americans ever since under the guise of equality of opportunity.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
In the notes he made for a speech in the Constitutional Convention, James Madison wrote of the “real or supposed difference of interests” between “the rich and poor”—“those who will labor under all the hardships of life, and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings”—and of the fact that over the ages to come the latter would
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
obligation to themselves.
John Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security
The late Derrick Bell, the first tenured African American professor at Harvard Law School, is often regarded as the progenitor of what we generally call critical race Theory, having derived the name by inserting race into his area of specialty: critical legal theory.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
Adding insult to injury, we’re professionally trained and rewarded to make White people the default referent group that Blacks are measured against. In doing so, we acquire a tendency to center White people in our work.