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  1. Jan 2023
    1. Science should have been employed more fully to warn us that the Negro, after 350 years of handicaps, mired in an intricate network of contemporary barriers, could not be ushered into equality by tentative and superficial changes.

      See Miller earlier

    2. The policymakers of the white society have caused the darkness; they create discrimination; they structured slums; and they perpetuate unemployment, ignorance and poverty. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes.

      Rae -- "derivative crime"

  2. Oct 2020
  3. Sep 2020
    1. The Gatcher in the Rye

      While this is a book with a white protagonist and almost an entirely white cast of characters, Diaz has seen herself in it. What does she see in Holden Caulfield?

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    1. sentimentality

      "excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia." What's a good example of this in Obama's public life as First Lady? How did she get this reputation?

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