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Back then, Mr. Douglass’s name was Fred, and that root allowed him to resist. There were such battles in the Bible, where a root was not solid, but made of Spirit, given by an old man who had learned of it in his dreams. Or in the stories
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“About 97 percent of the study participants overestimated Black-white wealth equality, and most assumed that highly educated, high-income Black households were the most likely to achieve economic parity with white counterparts. That is also wrong. The magnitude of the wealth gap only widens as Black people earn more income.69”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“The legacy of this nation to Black Americans has consisted of immorally high rates of poverty, incarceration, and death and the lowest rates of land and home ownership, employment, school funding, and wealth. All of this reveals that Black Americans, along with Indigenous people—the two groups forced to be part of this nation—remain the most neglected beneficiaries of the America that would not exist without us. This unacknowledged debt, all of it, is still accruing. And it will continue to accrue”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“People identifying as white evangelicals, regardless of their personal religiosity, “rallied around Trump to defend a white Protestant nation,” Dowland writes. “They have proven to be loyal foot soldiers in the battle against undocumented immigrants and Muslims. The triumph of gay rights, the persistence of legal abortion, and the election of Barack Obama signaled to them a need to fight for the America they once knew.” —”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“What most distinguishes white American evangelicals from other Christians, other religious groups, and nonbelievers is not theology but politics,” writes Seth Dowland, associate professor of religion at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right. “Over the course of the 20th century, the evangelical coalition entwined theology, whiteness, and conservative politics…. To identify as evangelical in the early 21st century signals commitments to gun rights, the abolition of legal abortion, and low taxes.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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