![]() ![]() One officer was indicted for shooting stray bullets into the apartment of Taylor’s white neighbors. Not one of the cops was held liable for killing the 26-year-old black woman as she slept in her own bed. At this writing, black America is reeling from the grand jury decision in Louisville, Kentucky, on the Breonna Taylor case. All three came to power riding the horse of hate and division, with black folks as scapegoats. ![]() ![]() Glaude was dismayed by the ascension of Donald Trump. I call this America’s mythology based upon the unholy trilogy: racism, white supremacy, and white privilege.īaldwin despaired with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the elections of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Glaude argues that what links Baldwin’s America with modern times is the “lie.” This is the long-held view that blacks are of lesser value than whites. ![]()
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