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“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament (Religion and Postmodernism)
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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.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now—all over a globe which has never been and never will
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arranger Gil Evans,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.