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we should not be surprised that the Enlightenment could accommodate slavery; we should be surprised if it had not.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
The prophets count on us to be appalled by injustice.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The relationship was further compounded by the fact that, historically, jazz musicians, regardless of skin color, had been seen primarily as entertainers, not artists.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
But the ease with which these attacks are deployed reflects an ignorance about the progressive Black church tradition: Preachers such as Warnock may strike the comfortable as offensive, but their critiques aren’t unpatriotic screeds. Rather, they proclaim a deep love for, and thus a deep disappointment in, a country that too often fails to affirm
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Black history should be taught at the heart of American history.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
“They no longer say ‘this is the party of liberty and justice,’” he wrote, “but ‘this is the party of self and profit.’”
Henry Louis Gates Jr. • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Is bias the main cause of racial inequality? Do slavery and past discrimination still hold Black people back today? Do immigrants strengthen the country because of their hard work and talents?
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Kerry James Marshall
en.wikipedia.orgWhat a powerful construction race is—powerful enough to consume us. And it comes for us early.