Sublime

Charles Davenport.

Jefferson in his racist generosity allowed that some infusion of European ancestry afforded Africans somewhat greater capacity, but it is quite clear he would have found me, credibly 81 percent African, lacking. I hold instead to what W. E. B. Du Bois said: “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with

Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves . . . Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told

Like countless other Black Southerners at the time, Pullum’s fate was directly tied to the whims of his white boss, who in 1923 decided to withhold money from Pullum even after he had completed the necessary work. With no available recourse or protection from the state, Pullum decided to take matters into his own hands.

For American taxpayers, the Savings and Loans debacle was a hugely expensive lesson in the perils of ill-considered deregulation.

they refer back to him on what is acceptable, how to reconcile democracy and genocide and characterize it as freedom for the people.