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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2018-05-09:

"West calls his struggle the right to be a "free thinker," and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom--a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls you to give even more, but a conqueror's freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak, the freedom of rape buttons, pussy grabbers, and fuck you anyway, bitch; freedom of oil and invisible wars, the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas." -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his essay "I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye."

[ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/]

(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)