Six on Race: Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil; Most White People Don't Think They...

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Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil

On the history of evil:

Throughout our nervous history, we have constructed pyramidic towers of evil, ofttimes in the name of good. Our greed, fear and lasciviousness have enabled us to murder our poets, who are ourselves, to castigate our priests, who are ourselves. The lists of our subversions of the good stretch from before recorded history to this moment. We drop our eyes at the mention of the bloody, torturous Inquisition. Our shoulders sag at the thoughts of African slaves lying spoon-­fashion in the filthy hatches of slave-ships, and the subsequent auction blocks upon which were built great fortunes in our country. We turn our heads in bitter shame at the remembrance of Dachau and the other gas ovens, where millions of ourselves were murdered by millions of ourselves. As soon as we are reminded of our actions, more often than not we spend incredible energy trying to forget what we’ve just been reminded of.

Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil

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Most White People Don't Think They Enjoy Privilege Over Blacks

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What if We Talked About White Poverty the Way We Talk About Black Poverty?

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Flint’s lead-poisoned water had a ‘horrifyingly large’ effect on fetal deaths, study finds

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Will Florida Banish the Ghost of Jim Crow?

The state still disenfranchises more of its eligible voters than any other—but this year, it has the chance to change that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/florida-felon-disenfranchisement/541680/

The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry

"What Trump is up to with this assault on athletes, particularly prominent black ones, is obvious; it is part of his larger culture war. Divide. Inflame. Confuse. Divert. And rule. He doesn’t care to grapple with complexity of any kind, whether it’s about the environment, or foreign affairs, or race, or the fact that a great American sport may, by its very nature, be irredeemable. Rather than embody any degree of dignity, knowledge, or unifying embrace, Trump is a man of ugliness, and the damage he does, speech after speech, tweet after tweet, deepens like a coastal shelf. Every day, his Presidency takes a toll on our national fabric. How is it possible to argue with the sentiment behind LeBron James’s concise tweet at Trump: “U Bum”? It isn’t."

The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry

The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph... President Trump’s assault on athletes, particularly prominent black ones, is part of his larger culture war. Div...