America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people. — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led to ignorance and hate. Racial discriminationracist ideasignorance/hate: this is the causal relationship driving America’s history of race relations.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
