If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery. Changed hearts… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea. — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change the structural… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well,… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share
There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time! — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever, whether it's Greece, Rome or the British Empire. It doesn't mean that America has to end. The country could be reshaped… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The Trump voter… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
