“We have made this period of civil rights into a period of consummate triumph. Everyone wants to own it. A great number of people were not for it at the time, and it took tremendous struggle with failure after failure… to bring about the great changes. Nothing in history is really ever new, but nothing ever happens just because it is right”
FB: A brief lecture on the history of race in the united states, and the way that America creates narratives about itself, with Ellison and Baldwin quotes sprinkled throughout. I thought it would be just the same stuff I have been reading in lots of think-pieces recently, but it got to different places and I think partially because it was this British-sponsored lecture.
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