Lincoln Had A Tremendous Capacity For Personal

If America Has A Civic Religion, The First Amendment Is Its Central Article Of Faith.

An Impressively Researched And Documented Collection Of The Finest Thought Produced By Writers Throughout The African Diaspora. A Magnificent Achievement.

The Act Of Writing For The Slave Constituted The Act Of Creating A Public, Historical Self, Not Only The Self Of The Individual Author But Also The Self, As It Were, Of The Race.

In The Old Days, You Lived In One Neighborhood, You Knew All Your Neighbors And Your Daughter Married The Guy Next Door. That Was Social And Economic Progress. That Model Is Gone Now. We Also Had A World Order That Was Fraught But Fairly Stable.

Patriotism Is Best Exemplified Through Auto-critique. When You're Willing To Stand Up Within The Group And Say, 'it Is Wrong For Black People To Be Anti-semitic,' Or 'it Is Wrong For America To Discriminate Against Persons Of African Descent And Made Them Slaves And Based Its Wealth Upon Free Labor,' It's Crucial To Say That.