Sublime

They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

Being a Black American requires double consciousness, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, the habit of seeing from inside the logic of race and the lives of the racialized, and from the external superego of what it means to be American, with all its archetypes and interests.

The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.