Thomas Jefferson said, 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. I feel like we all have an obligation to be a part of the revolutionary process. And so, that's constantly been the struggle. He is the author of 'Don't Know Much About Indians (but I wrote a book about us anyways)' and more recently, 'How to Say I Love You in Indian.'Īmerica, a work in progress: 'If it hadn't been for revolution, if it hadn't been for disruptors, if it hadn't been for interrupters, we wouldn't be here. Ross, an author and attorney (and speaker and father) comes from the Blackfeet Nation. They were willing to consider evolution.' -Gyasi Ross They might have been not fully inclusive, but they were aspirational. And those aspirations, they might have been right or they might have been wrong. 'The one thing that we can agree on is that at one time America was aspirational. His newest book is 'Democracy in Black.'Ī writer that influenced him: James Baldwin He is now a Professor of Religion at Princeton where he chairs the Department of African American Studies. And he said, 'Boy, you look as good in person as you do on television.' And then he said, 'I don't agree with much of what you say, but keep saying it.' -Eddie Glaude Jr.

And I walk into this place, and this real grisly, stereotypical southern white man says, 'Hey, don't I see you on television?' And I said yes. And I came home a week early and I was going to get me this wonderful 12-inch seafood po' boy. I usually go home to take my mama to the fair. 'I went to Bozos, this wonderful seafood place, Kerri, when I was home for my homecoming recently. Once you cross over into my home state people are smiling.'

And it's haunted by its past and present. Right? That the soil is soaked with the blood of our contradiction. 'There's something about the South that is so fundamentally American.

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