Truly, when people ask for rights, be they women’s rights, gay and transgender rights, or rights as people of color, they are asking for contract rights. It has certainly included the countless thousands who lost their lives speaking out and challenging white supremacy everywhere, people whose names we, as a country, will mostly never know. A half-century ago, nothing less than radical anti-racism could reduce white supremacy to an outlaw religion. Over the past century, liberalism, vexed by an ever-sharp, ever-cutting white supremacy, has needed these rocks. But they also had to carry them, because dedicated people, forcefully defending black rights, drove hatemongers to conduct their murderous work under cover of darkness.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2017 10:02 UTC