Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.
Freedom without limits is just a word.
You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.