Sublime

For Hamer, the issue of involuntary sterilization was as urgent as that of police brutality and other manifestations of state-sanctioned violence.

Hamer worked to help others

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

an unmarried, low-income, undereducated teenage mother from a black neighborhood who has a distinctively black name herself.

for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.