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BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 13

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

“We know how you all want us to cancel black people when they do something bad, but you keep making excuses for people you revere. People say, ‘can’t we just draw the line at rapists and murderers?’ But for us history is rife with horrible men and then we’ve learned that we have to sing praises to those horrible men, and we see them on our money and their names on our schools and our bridges. So horrible man is not a disqualifier. Our lives are imbued with them. When they ask us about Michael Jackson (how can you sing those songs?) and R Kelly; it’s complicated. I will get rid of Michael Jackson when you get rid of Andrew Jackson. At least you can dance to Beat It. But our stories are so full of irredeemably horrible people that it’s something we can compartmentalize. Literally, if Bill Cosby was a priest, he wouldn’t be in prison.” – D.L. Hughley, Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace

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