Between the World and Me

rom Jesus to George Washington, was white.

Destruction of Black Civilization

Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson

Ice Cube’s album Death Certificat

me live my life, if we can no longer live our life, then let us give our life for the liberation and salvation of the black nation.

I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe

The ground we walked was trip-wired. The air we breathed was toxic. The water stunted our growth. We could not get out.

And you know now, if you did not before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body. It does not matter if the destruction is the result of an unfortunate overreaction.

this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.