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“It is because of religious dogma, (black health care professional Thelma) Delgado says, that young African Americans believe "God will make a way for their survival, so they may drop out of school, have children with no visible means of supporting them, or simply not plan for their financial future because they believe god will handle the hardships and the details that rationalists plan for.”
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“James Baldwin’s words haunt: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” Are we a nation of monsters?”
― Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
― Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
“[T]he Black Church's inflexibility on same-sex marriage and homophobia continues to imperil the moral health and social capital of communities of color. It is for this reason that the Black Church has become largely irrelevant as a social justice organizer in the post-Jim Crow era. Consequently, secular humanists of color have an opportunity to enter the breach.”
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“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”
― The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
― The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
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