The problem with America's 1865 emancipation of the enslaved was that, African Americans were so busy envisioning a freedom like Whites had been parading around for centuries, denied any model of alternative liberty in a brown body as they were, that they could not conceptualize a space of freedom for those Whites without their having a place in it.
In other words, had they known better, they would have realized the American constitution held no hand of opportunity out to them – it could not even see them. The freedom they envied, depended upon their remaining enslaved.
02 June 2009
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