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Danny DeBelius
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It will be asked, how does the historian know when Decadence sets in? By the open confessions of malaise.… When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. The term is not a slur; it is a technical label.
“To be antiracist is to focus on ending the racism that shapes the mirages, not to ignore the mirages that shape peoples’ lives.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Ethnic racism, like racism itself, points to group behavior, instead of policies, as the cause of disparities between groups.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“In other words, researchers have found a much stronger and clearer correlation between violent-crime levels and unemployment levels than between violent crime and race. Black neighborhoods do not all have similar levels of violent crime. If the cause of the violent crime is the Black body, if Black people are violent demons, then the violent-crime levels would be relatively the same no matter where Black people live.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“When Ghanaian immigrants to the United States join with White Americans and say African Americans are lazy, they are recycling the racist ideas of White Americans about African Americans. This is ethnic racism”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Generally speaking, individual Black and Latinx and Asian and Middle Eastern and European immigrants are uniquely resilient and resourceful—not because they are Nigerian or Cuban or Japanese or Saudi Arabian or German but because they are immigrants. In fact, immigrants and migrants of all races tend to be more resilient and resourceful when compared with the natives of their own countries and the natives of their new countries. Sociologists call this the “migrant advantage.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
Danny’s 2025 Year in Books
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