Kennedy Jones’s Reviews > Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism > Status Update

“Akan and Mina and Wolof became Black. Muscogee and Haudenosaunee and Wampanoag became Indian. These are the original sons to which I’m referring to in the title of this book. The sin lies not only in the act of violence, but in the creation of the idea that makes the violence morally permissible.”