In a recent New Yorker article, a former Russian military officer pointed out that Russian interference in the election could only succeed where necessary conditions and an existing background were pr...
Il mondo nero cresceva davanti ai miei occhi, e per la prima volta capivo che quel mondo non era solo il negativo di quello della gente che si crede bianca. L’America Bianca è un’organizzazione schier...
I was attracted to their guns, because the guns seemed honest. The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language - vio...
I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.
I do remember watching Bill Clinton get impeached and Hillary Clinton being accused of killing Vince Foster, he said. And if you ask them, I’m sure they would say, ‘No, actually what you’re experienci...
Her disposition toward life was that of an elite athlete who knows the opponent is dirty and the refs are on the take, but also knows the championship is one game away.
Her disposition toward life was that of an elite athlete who knows the opponent is dirty and the refs are on the take, but also knows the championship is one game away. She
He's screwing with you, T'Challa. I mean, I have ego, but at least my brilliance exceeds my ego. I'm happy you think so. I heard that. Yes, because I said it. I know. Next time, it'd help you at least...
He is a general at war with his own army. An exhorter of radical beliefs, shrinking from their obvious conclusions. It was so much easier in the lecture hall, the salon, the seminar. When theory need...
For that particular community, for my community, the message has long been clear: The Civil War is a story for white people—acted out by white people, on white people’s terms—in which blacks feature s...
For so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bo...
Everything that was the past seemed to be another life. There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I’d never had. I submitted before your needs, and I knew the...
Educated children never offered excuses—certainly not childhood itself. The world had no time for the childhoods of black boys and girls.
Don’t give up your life, preserve your life, he would say. And if you got to give it up, make it even-steven.
Disembodiment is a kind of terrorism, and the threat of it alters the orbit of all our lives and, like terrorism, this distortion is intentional. Disembodiment. The dragon that compelled the boys I kn...
Considering segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, Richard Nixon concluded, Strom is no racist. There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally....
But we were supposed to be exceptional. Wakanda is exceptional, Baba. And now, more than ever, we need someone to remind us.
But the price of error ishigher for you than it is foryour countrymen, and sothat America might justifyitself, the story of a blackbody’s destruction mustalways begin with his orher error, real or ima...
But a great number of educators spoke of personal responsibility in a country authored and sustained by a criminal irresponsibility. The point of this language of intention and personal responsibility...
But I was a boy, seeing in him what boys can’t help but see in their fathers—a mold in which their own manhood might be cast.