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She wanted faculty and students to join her and guide her in reclaiming and retrieving what had been broken into pieces and scattered to the wind—the sounds, sensibilities, wisdom, knowledge, and life strategies of multiple peoples made black by a colonialist brush. But no one understood this as theological work to be done.

typically position White people as the superior standard. “Do Americans ever stop to reflect that there are in this land a million men of Negro blood…who, judged by any standard, have reached the full measure of the best type of modern European culture? Is it fair, is it decent, is it Christian…to belittle such aspiration?” Du Bois asked in 1903.

we insist Black being into the wake.

In the Age of Imperialism, when the definition of human was "man" and the definition of man was "white," none of this was obvious.

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African Americans to “develop a kind of dangerous

Grace Lee Boggs

“Civilization” is often a polite euphemism for cultural racism.