National transformation requires confronting the value gap’s history and its warping of democracy

Evidence

What is required, if America is to become the nation it hopes to be, is a wholesale transformation of our idea of who we are. This must involve confronting, without flinching, the nasty implication of the value gap. We must tell ourselves a different story, about how this belief has devastated the lives of so many Americans and how it has warped our idea of democracy. We can no longer forget. Such forgetting leaves in place the habits and illusions that make possible the value gap and sanctions our willful blindness to the devastation caused by the Great Black Depression. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 131

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘Great Black Depression’ framing echoes the book’s core claim that black economic suffering since 2008 amounts to its own depression rather than a footnote to the general one.