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White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.
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None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.
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Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one's feelings of self-worth and one's capacity to be a political agent.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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June 2, 1953
(age 70)
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Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, academic, social activist, author, public intellectual, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Known for:
Race Matters (1994)
Black Prophetic Fire (2014)
Democracy Matters (2004)
Brother West (2009)
The Cornel West reader (1999)
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