Sublime

being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination.

Then, via a spectacle of protection-through-dominance, they used the tactics of myth-building and accrued might, rooted in themes of European racial Supremacy.

Activism in the form of anti-anti-racism became a new strategy designed to make the left feel unsafe and to prove their tacit assurances of increasing cultural hegemony were a lie.

historical appropriation is most tempting to those whose political, theological, and economic lineage not only ignored racial justice but actively supported racist beliefs and actions.

Electronic Intifada (the daily web news source propelled by Chicago-based Palestinian refugee Ali Abunimah)

King’s civil rights movement, at least, took on ontological assertions, calling us to honor the concrete humanity of our neighbor.

Three white men approached Lamar Smith, who during World War II had enlisted in the Army at the age of forty-nine, and who now, having returned from the war to build up a profitable farm, had enlisted in another battle: “He was determined,” an admirer would say, “that his people would have a say in local government.” The three men warned Smith to s

It was the lazy Blacks who made your neighborhoods unsafe and threatened your lineage’s purity and survival due to interracial relationships. These narratives converged in a cacophony of social media and mainstream media outlets on a constant loop. The tools of the wealthy class were deployed in full force to shape thinking and mobilize fear into a

And he made room for emotions, not only of the students but of their relatives and ancestors, allowing historical memory to count as real and powerful.