Sublime
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The defining feature of being drafted into the Black race [is] the inescapable robbery of time.”
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
The great conversation has become a monologue.
Teju Cole • Tremor: A Novel
“Wokeness wants to make comedy illegal, which is not cool,” he contended. “Trying to shut down David Chappelle, come on, man, that’s crazy. Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate and no forgiveness? At its heart wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel
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Racist voting policy has evolved from disenfranchising by Jim Crow voting laws to disenfranchising by mass incarceration and voter-ID laws.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
“balkanization and the loss of shared experiences and values may be harmful to the structure of democratic societies.”
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
cjr.org • The Substackerati
of racial inequities.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Racist ideas argue that the inferiorities and superiorities of racial groups explain racial inequities in society.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
body because neither security nor sanctity existed in the first place.