Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD

Behind the phrase, “racial issues,” stands the idea of justice and egalitarian thinking and, most importantly, the practice of systemic (institutionalized) racism.

The plantation becomes an organizational design of “labor and nature,” where the nightmare in Jefferson’s dream (the uprising of the enslaved) becomes the nightmare (the violence of enslavement) in the dreams of freedom for Black people.

A Black girl manages to climb the wall only to discover she is likely to be crushed no matter what she has done to prepare for adulthood.

the neglect of our civic duty to resist permits the rule of the tyrannical.

the children in the Congo just want a chance to realize their potential as human beings. If not for a reminder of a peculiar arrangement of humanity.

There’s a reason to discredit activists for justice, to disseminate ignorance, to ignore the presence of armed militia groups. It is to deny white violence and at the same time, justify white violence.

How does America work to address institutionalize racism in the present without at least possessing solid and honest knowledge about its participation in the violence of conquest, genocide, enslavement, torture, terrorism, and imperialism?

This creation of what isn’t human distracts from what is human and we are never to notice and always forget that the use of deliberate and cruel violence makes a fantasy within a reality for the benefit of the entitled to maintain the power of life and death over others.

The indifference towards other human beings and their plight, their suffering, and their death and the outlawing of their protests, dismissal of their pleas of “I can’t breathe,” is violence. The omission of this history of violence, its continuing legacy, the omission of the beneficial inheritance for those who collaborate consciously or unconsciously in this cover up is a crime against humanity.