Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

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