Sublime

niceness is not courageous.

As NPR’s Don Gonyea points out, a remarkable preponderance of white

white supremacy is rendered invisible while other political systems—socialism, capitalism, fascism—are identified and studied.

conclude it was essential to wrestle with the existential question, Who am I as a Black man in a society that resents my very being? At

The ongoing state-sanctioned legal and extralegal murders of Black people are normative and, for this so-called democracy, necessary; it is the ground we walk on. And that it is the ground lays out that, and perhaps how, we might begin to live in relation to this requirement for our death. What kinds of possibilities for rupture might be opened up?

Individual whites may be “against” racism, but they still benefit from a system that privileges whites as a group.

Naming who has access and who doesn’t guides our efforts in challenging injustice.

Each human being is multidimensional and contradictory, with what Avery Gordon describes as a “complex personhood”: