the hellion roses in the wind
the jeremiads offered by contemporary racial voices so commonly boil down to calls for “conversations about race”
This surface accord within the charmed circle of soi-disant black leaders reinforces the illusion
This new welter of platforms and voices seeking to promulgate and validate the acceptable terms of black leadership
Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 race film Django Unchained reduced slavery and manumission to the antics of a spaghetti-Western-style hero who in fact never challenges slavery but fixates only on rescuing his wife
