Literature
I know that what I am asking is impossible
For the sake of one’s children, in order to minimize the bill that they must pay, one must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion — and the value placed on the color of the skin is always and everywhere and forever a delusion. I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand — and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
What is the thread that runs through the attacks on DEI, immigration, withdrawing money to fight extreme poverty in the Global South, Gaza, the attack on asylum rights, BREXIT, and the rise of the far right throughout Western nations?