100 million

It appears that there are two classes of refugee: White ones. Everyone else.

Jesus, on racism

His name by itself is a poem. Ezra Pound. In a Station in the Metro: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.” He was anti-Semitic. He was weeds and wheat, the subject of Jesus’ most profound parable.

Pigmental

Only in a culture that fetishizes the body can a man be described as black or white.

James Baldwin

No one before or since has rebuked White America with such elegance and fearlessness. “I will flatly say that the bulk of this country’s white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation. They have been white, if I may so put it, for too long.”

Instantly evaluated

A deepening awareness of how racism operates exposes a truth we’ve never understood or taken stock of: Our bodies divide and tribalize us, even to the reductio ad absurdum of skin colour.