American democratic principles are inseparable from white supremacy

Evidence

Our democratic principles do not exist in a space apart from our national commitment to white supremacy. They have always been bound tightly together, sharing bone and tissue. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 26

Categorization

• DEFINE: The value gap is not a gap between belief and practice but a contradiction internal to the beliefs themselves.
• QUESTION: Worth pressing: does ‘sharing bone and tissue’ make reformist politics self-contradictory?