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- Ann Garrison , BAR contributor“The Belgians had made it clear, before independence, that they did not intend to cede control of its wealth to the Congolese.”
- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“Fryer posited that perhaps black people are genetically inferior to whites or that black children don’t succeed in school for the same reason.”
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor“The revolutionary heroes of May 19th would find Sharpton and his clique not just repulsive, but criminal as well.”
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor“The ideology I’d like to dismantle makes every black person the same as every other black person, assumed to be a man or woman under the age of sixty-five.”
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”