In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can’t think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn’t wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.
ATTRIBUTION:
June Jordan (b. 1939), U.S. poet, civil rights activist. “Problems of Language in a Democratic State,” Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1982, repr. 1989).
