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The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
When we treat it as axiomatic that small towns have no use or place for such people, that if you have ever liked a French movie you had better just hurry to the nearest city, we forget that part of being a community is leaving room for the diversity of human nature.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
outside the mainstream,
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
It is also almost impossible to expect large numbers of people to think in terms of principles, to understand the profound difference between “I don’t approve of this” and “this should be illegal.” At least, however, we have the First Amendment. Europe is an entirely other matter.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The freedom of disregard.