In the social and political order, the Black "next" insists on the new, the hopeful, the transformative, often against any possibility of its realization. The white "again" bitterly clings to the past. If Black politics and the culture of "next" have often expressed the desire to make history anew, then the white world of the stubborn "again" holds fast to a highly selective version of the past. The white "again" cloaks its centuries-long will to control Black bodies in talk of tradition and conserving values. The white "again" seeks ways to deny Black progress.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 116
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