Sublime

presented as a requirement (on pain of being labeled a traitor) that all blacks must think alike, act alike, and choose from the same narrow set of acceptable aspirations. Strangely enough, those aspirations have often been defined by white people like the NBC correspondent and the head of the foundation who did not think blacks should be business

“He attended school, where he was taught what every white child was taught; but the moment he went through the door of the school into life he knew that the white boy went one way and he went another. School stimulated and developed in him those impulses which all of us have, and then he was made to realize that he could not act upon them. Can the

Naming who has access and who doesn’t guides our efforts in challenging injustice.

same for blacks and whites, because blacks and whites do not share the same life. The lives of a black slave and white slaveholder were radically different. It follows that their thoughts about things divine would also be different, even though they might sometimes use the same words about God. The life of the slaveholder and others of that culture

Wilson’s legacy was extensive: he effectively closed the Democratic Party to African Americans for another two decades, and parts of the federal government remained segregated into the 1950s and beyond.

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist

This is the position of the disinherited in every age. What must be the attitude toward the rulers, the controllers of political,