Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
— Henry Louis Gates
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
