Closing the value gap requires renaming racism and reimagining collective democracy

Evidence

To close that gap, black people and all of those who have turned their backs on white supremacy will have to name racism when it blocks a broader vision of the country, tell a different story when people disremember in order to justify a political agenda, and envision the beloved community in which all Americans do more than just go to work and tend to their individual gardens, but experience a deeply felt interdependence in a jointly shared effort to reimagine American democracy. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 562

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Category: Definitional Content

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