“There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.” WayChildrenPlayHappensBlackFailingOne ThingTalentGeniusDiscriminationMaking MoneyDozenTranslateFlair Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.” YearsStatesKidsSchoolLastsChoicesFightingLeftBlackEffortMoralFocusFailingLowsBottomIncomeDestroyedWelfareGapsScreamDependencePublic SchoolWelfare StateLow IncomeBlack FamilySchool Choice Author:Star Parker
“Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.” PeopleGovernmentBlackMoralFailingCenturyAmountBlack PeopleBait Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“We are invested in being together. In having friends. In joining our lives. And yet these are the people who also fail you. And when they fail you in these ways, it signals a larger understanding about who you are as a black person in the world. It's not just a little failure for me. Its something exposed.” PeopleWorldWayLittlesPersonsTogetherUnderstandingBlackOur LivesFailingWho You AreExposedSignalsJoiningBeing TogetherBlack Person Author:Claudia Rankine
“I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.” ThinkingTryingHateBlackRecordsFailingBandEssenceClassicMetalsBlack MetalGloaming Author:Mat McNerney