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“America makes claims of exceptionalism. one can at once claim to be superhuman, and then plead moral error.”
“...Gettysburg shows that a government by the people and for the people will continue to endure...”. The problem is in the definition of “the people” as that did not at that time include your mother or grandmother, or men like me.
— Mar 26, 2021 08:08AM
“...Gettysburg shows that a government by the people and for the people will continue to endure...”. The problem is in the definition of “the people” as that did not at that time include your mother or grandmother, or men like me.
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Mike
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"I wanted you to understand that to be distanced, if even for a moment from fear, is not a passport out of the struggle. We will always be black you and I, even if it means different things in different places."
"Remember the Roma you saw begging in the streets, and the venom with which they were addressed."
"...there is no velocity of escape. Home will find us in any language"
— Mar 31, 2021 04:29PM
"Remember the Roma you saw begging in the streets, and the venom with which they were addressed."
"...there is no velocity of escape. Home will find us in any language"
Mike
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You can no more be black like I am black, than I can be black like your grandfather was black”
— Mar 26, 2021 09:16AM
Mike
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“Racism is a visceral process.”
“The world did not have time for the childhoods of black boys and girls...”
“Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them”
— Mar 26, 2021 08:37AM
“The world did not have time for the childhoods of black boys and girls...”
“Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them”
