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people already seen as white got to decide who was white.9

Why would anyone expect a newly empowered minority-majority to act any differently from, say, the way white settlers treated Native Americans

the Republican is foe to Black people; the Democrats possess Black loyalty notwithstanding their neglect of those most loyal constituents.

“He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.”

There are few things that progressives like more than presenting the appearance of being on the cutting edge of social thought.

What, then, are they conserving, other than the progressive accomplishments of the prior generation?

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

Whether at a dinner table or in grand theories, the false choice between black-black and worthy black is a trap. It poses that ending blackness was the goal of anti-racist work when the real goal has always been and should always be ending whiteness.