“The project of white supremacy has always been a project of erasure, sweeping under the rugs, wiping away from pages, actively distorting the story of us, what [Viet Thanh] Nguyen calls unjust forgetting. White folk wanted to forget. They wanted to baptize themselves in American lies and American gospels and American sermons and American anthems. It was not an accident. It was an act of terror.”
Dante Stewart, Shouting in the Fire: An American Epistle. New York: Convergent, 2021, page 182.
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