While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we… — Nikole Hannah-Jones

White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.

If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.

The racism we are fighting today was originally conjured to justify working unfree Black people, often until death, to generate extravagant riches for ... all the ancillary white people ... who earned their living and built their wealth from that free Black labor.