disaffected souls are relentlessly steered back into the thrall of a marketplace where we can access, individually, little hits of succor

distinguish the wealthy wheat from the indigent chaff

The sententious tracts of the Gilded Age had always been aimed at breadwinners and would-be financiers, which is to say, at men

pain belongs in therapy, fortified by the anodyne paintings and muted by the padded walls

disparaged the film as a “white savior narrative”—a phrase that is now a routine derogation of certain cross-racial sagas of resistance to white supremacy

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

This new welter of platforms and voices seeking to promulgate and validate the acceptable terms of black leadership

This surface accord within the charmed circle of soi-disant black leaders reinforces the illusion

the jeremiads offered by contemporary racial voices so commonly boil down to calls for “conversations about race”

the hellion roses in the wind