We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting mean…

Michael Eric Dyson
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We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of e pluribus unum. ✨ Michael Eric Dyson (2009). April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America, p.231, Basic Books
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