It’s as if he’s talking about Obama, a hundred years in advance.
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer... More by Christopher Frizzelle
Woops! Bet you didn’t mean to imply what it seems you are implying.
Pulling up/lifting up. Like a giant lifting up a Lilliputian. Progress is trying to get people to stand taller, not finding a reason to step on them.
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I clicked the comments just to see if anybody from the PC Police was yelling at him yet. :couch: :popcorn:
You dare to bold DuBois.
It could also describe Dan.
The trickle down theory of social justice…the roots grow deep, eh?
False as can be.
I do not want to go back in time and read the paper I wrote about that book in a US History class my first year of college when I was an 18-year-old Baptist from the sticks.
Hey! It’s almost Black Myth Month!
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I totally agree with your inference that most black people are “duller brethren”.
Stupid magic negros.
Creepy ubermensch language. No thank you.
i suppose you’ll nominate yourself to the ‘talented tenth’?
Wow. You managed to find one of the few bad passages in Souls of the Black Folk. Congratulations!
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No kidding. Blech.