“The Belgians had made it clear, before independence, that they did not intend to cede control of its wealth to the Congolese.”

“Fryer posited that perhaps black people are genetically inferior to whites or that black children don’t succeed in school for the same reason.”

“The revolutionary heroes of May 19th would find Sharpton and his clique not just repulsive, but criminal as well.”

“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.”

“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”