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To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

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It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

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As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

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I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

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Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.

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Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

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Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

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For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

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Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

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Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 4th, 1968

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