Are Private Schools Immoral?
By Dianna Douglas
December 14, 2017 at 11:37AM
via The Atlantic http://ift.tt/2AFOctM
"Hannah-Jones: I am not a slave. That's true.
Goldberg: Well… All right.
Hannah-Jones: If that's the bar.
Goldberg: No, no, no.
Hannah-Jones: None of us would argue that there hasn't been progress in a range of things. I guess I get almost offended by people who want us to pause and be congratulatory about forward progress.
Goldberg: I just want it known for the record that I'm offending you already. And we haven't even started.
Hannah-Jones: I mean, in a country that has set itself apart as a beacon of democracy, the fact that we're applauding that black folks now have had, for 40 years, full citizenship rights in the country of their birth, in the country of their grandparents' birth, in the country their great grandparents' birth—it's just hard to feel a lot of optimism."