We live in a nation that does everything to induce our rage while simultaneously doing everything to deny that we have a right to feel it. American democracy is as much a project of suppressing Black rage as it is of leigimizing and elevating white rage. American democracy uses calls for civility, equality, liberty and justice as smoke screens to obscure all the ways in which Black folks are treated uncivilly, unequally, illiberally, and unjustly as a matter of course.
Black feminist author, activist and pundit
Brittney Cooper is an American author, professor, activist, and cultural critic. She published her first book in 2017 titled Her first book was 'Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women'. She is also the author of 'Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower'
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