Existing comment:
"What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant [sic -- should be crouching] on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man."
-- Frederick Douglass, on the Emancipation Memorial
The fact that America + Americans hold on so dearly to racist symbols let's [sic] me know that this country will never fully dismantle racist systems of oppression.
Racist is a part of this country's ethos & very much embedded in its mythology.
-- A very tired Black Woman |