Status Updates From The Fire Next Time

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Buddy really really really needed a law-gospel distinction

Buddy really really really needed an absolution

Reads a lot like how James talks about young boys grappling with original sin and the law - and something many young girls do not experience

“The country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free.” I FEAR HE ATE

And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.

They have had to believe for so many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of identity