White Americans refused to hear racial truths in 2020 just as in 1969

Evidence

Still, they are not going to listen; they don’t want to know or hear the truths about the situation of black people. Theirs is a narrow concern, a familiar conceit: For them, this country must remain white. To face this kind of thinking again, in 2020, is profoundly depressing; to see its deadly consequences is frightening. You have to work hard to hold off what W.E.B. Du Bois called the temptation of despair, as we find ourselves fighting this battle over and over again. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 440

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls Du Bois’s ‘temptation of despair,’ echoing the book’s recurring theme of the after times repeating.