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“When Harriet Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was still alive. And when Harriet Tubman died, Ronald Reagan was alive. Stop saying everything was four hundred years ago. It wasn’t.”
Keith Boykin, Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away
“The purpose of creating an inclusive, multiracial society is not to erase color but to understand, respect, and appreciate the complexities of different people. We can create a world that allows us to live together in community rather than uniformity. For this reason, some of us have embraced the idea of America as a salad bowl whose various toppings represent our diversity rather than a melting pot that assimilates our differences and colors into one bland concoction.”
Keith Boykin, Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away

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