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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
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The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
His message focused on the urgency of a radical change in the inner attitude of the people. He recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory of the spirit against them. “To revile because one has been
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote
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