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"This officer, given maximum power, bore minimum responsibility. He was charged with nothing. He was punished by no one. He was returned to his work. [...] The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws."
— Nov 13, 2024 08:25AM
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max theodore
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"'Black-on-black crime' is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. [...] To yell 'black-on-black crime' is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding."
— Nov 16, 2024 10:27AM
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“The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own.”
— Nov 11, 2024 11:14AM
max theodore
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20 pages into this and ohhhhhh my god coates' writing. james baldwin style of prose that is so truthful and cutting and gorgeous that it knocks you off your feet
— Nov 06, 2024 04:38PM
