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Key believes that humor can provoke serious reflection on our culture. “I don’t know when this future comes, but I see the future that RFK could not realize, because his life was cut so short. And that James Baldwin could not realize ’cause his life was cut short. It’s a future that we’re hurtling toward. And the reason we’re in the fraught political and social time that we’re in right now is because the old guard is dying. And the old guard is not in a position to regain power. It’s trying. I’m a full believer that what we’re experiencing now are the last gasps. And so humor’s job is to ...more
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
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