Status Updates From We Were Eight Years in Powe...

Prisoners are not being reformed; they have been punished.

The most direct example is the price black people paid for living under the weight of someone else purpose.

An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

It simply could not be that Hillary Clinton was correct when she asserted that a large group of Americans was endorsing a president because of bigotry. The implications-that systemic racism is still central to our politics....that the salt-of-the-earth Americans we lionize in our culture and politics are not so different from those same Americans who grin back at us in lynching photos..-are just too dark.