Still, as George Floyd's death suggests, the knees of the nation have been on the necks of Black America for centuries. It took a Black man's suffering and suffocated body to pump oxygen into the body politic so that we might all breathe. But we can't stop here. Unless white folk grapple with how they have harmed the pasts and stolen the futures of Black folk, they won't be able to claim that they have participated in a true reckoning with racial oppression in America.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 95-96
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