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“The latter point, regarding schools and libraries, was key to understanding the UDC’s collective founding project. Members did not simply want to erect monuments for the fallen; they wanted to rewrite the public narrative. As Cox notes, they saw children as “living monuments” who would go on to defend the principles of states’ rights and white supremacy in ways that no inanimate monument could.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“The numbers vary widely, but historian Donald L. Fixico estimates that there were anywhere from a few million to 15 million Indigenous Americans living in North America upon Columbus’s arrival in 1492. By the late nineteenth century, the population had dropped to approximately 250,000.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“Race is a by-product of racism. In fact, race doesn’t exist.” Damaras said this in the way a person might say water is wet. “Some of you look surprised.” She adjusted her feet and straightened her back. “It’s a social construct. There has never been any scientific or genetic evidence to back up the concept of race. Despite it being false, it has woven its way into the fabric of all of our societies.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“The diagram of QAnon and New Agers looks more circular every day.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence