Quote of the Day

In Wakanda, we finally get the chance to just be -- like white folk can, and do, every day of their lives.  Yes, it's true, white folk have a Wakanda, too, but its name is different, because, even though it's chock full of myths, ideals, tales, and potions, it actually exists in real time, with real flesh and blood, with real cities and realities attached to it.  It's name is democracy.  Its name is Iowa, or New York.  Its name is bread, and car, and air, and speech, and school, and law and travel and society; in other words, whatever and wherever whiteness exists and is seen as normal and necessary, as usual, as taken for granted, as presumed, as invisible and unaccountable and, therefore, not necessary to be named Wakanda.  Fantasy ain't needed when reality already provides what fiction aims for.  Wakanda is necessary for us because our black lives are seen as anything but.  Wakanda matters because black lives don't.

-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 271-272