Monday, October 14, 2019

Dark Ages

  
If you ask me, black folks have been catching hell ever since the church made up white Jesus and the black devil. Since then darkness has been the code for badness. It's a deep, deep stain in Western culture. So deep we've laughed at it and cheered it on. Now that's powerful.






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