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Dr. Daniel Black had time with this one. Sir.!

“This fact must not be downplayed. It reveals many hard truths about America that scholars have chosen to ignore. Or leave unspoken. Like the fact that the moral crisis in America in the 1960s was a white dilemma—not a black one. Whites and white-dominated power structures terrorized black people and communities so harshly that blacks could not sustain a peaceful living.“ — it’s giving OBSESSED.

“Elders told me that, initially, they wanted social desegregation—not integration. But since whites didn’t have the spiritual fortitude or the moral character to be both separate and equal, integration was the only option. Yet it wasn’t their desire. Not by a long shot. Blacks simply hoped to be treated equally and fairly under the law. They hoped their tax money would support their own schools.”

“The safety of the closet blinds residents and privatizes joy. It suggests that as long as people don’t know who you are, they can’t hurt you. But they can. Their ignorance, their fear, can kill you. It always does because what they never tell you is that God won’t dwell in a closet. God exists only in liberty, self-love, and fearless truth. God wants what God planted in you—fully bloomed and unashamed.”

“Too many unclosetable angels waste time and energy pleading for normalcy when abnormality is their blessing, their spiritual inheritance.”

Yo Dr Daniel Black always be preaching! Always educating.. his essays Dying to be Loved & his discussion on HBCUs really fascinating, eye opening and gut wrenching

“Actually, DuVernay may be the boldest artist alive right now. When They See Us is raw enough, true enough, painful enough, to start a revolution for the salvation of black life in America.”