Sublime

But for Black people and for Latinos, who tend to live in cities and who together comprise the majority of the imprisoned, the logic of the situation is clear. Their imprisoned bodies are converted into someone else’s right to elect people who build more prisons.

The idea that progressivism is in fact the ruling ideology is nonsensical to a faith that defines itself by combating racism, a pervasive existential threat.

But no one speaks of the realized effects of 400 years of institutionalized slavery on white people.

“The conspiracy to destroy Black boys is very complex and interwoven,” Jawanza Kunjufu, a Chicago educational consultant, wrote in his Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, a 1982 pamphlet that has since been extended to three volumes.

In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness.

The art form that black Americans have relied upon for generations is no longer theirs.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new

A noble, high-minded view. The reality on the ground in the America into which Warren was publishing his books, though, could be neither noble nor high-minded—or even mindful at all. “Nigguhs hate whites, and whites hate nigguhs,” George Corley Wallace once drawled. “Everybody knows that deep down.”