Sublime

Crenshaw argues that (identity) categories “have meaning and consequences”;28 that is, they are objectively real. She distinguishes between a “black person” and a “person who happens to be black,”

They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.

an avowed partisan of the underclass, the marginalized, the poor.

He was fat. He wore jogging suits. He wore a medallion and gold chains. And the unforgivable of unforgivables, he had processed hair. The white media, perhaps not consciously, said, “We’re going to promote this guy because we can point up the ridiculousness and paucity of black leadership.” Al understood precisely what they were doing, precisely. A

Journalists claim to be hearing “both sides” as though a binary opposition had been set down by some disinterested god. But it is the journalists themselves who are playing god—it is the journalists who decide which sides are legitimate and which are not, which views shall be considered and which pushed out of the frame.

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

Black history should be taught at the heart of American history.

The right had a Critical Race Theory-like talking point: the academic left is poisoning young minds; there are stable truths.