The streaming services-Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and the like-assembled watchlists of Black movies and television. In the months following George Floyd’s murder, magazines and journals put forth dozens of “Black editions” and special issues to promote the work of their Black contributors. So that means you got a lot of precious Jamals and Letitias who are told to live vicariously through the lives of black celebrities so that it’s all about ‘representation’ rather than substantive transformation… ‘you gotta black president, all y’all must be free.’” – Cornel West interviewed by Joe Rogan, July 24, 2019 I was just a ragged, funky black shoeshine boy and was afraid of the people on the Hill, who, for their part, didn’t want to have anything to do with me.” – James Baldwin interviewed by Julius Lester, the New York Times Book Review, “You got 1 percent of the population in America who owns 41 percent of the wealth… but within the black community, the top 1 percent of black folk have over 70 percent of the wealth.
There was a great divide between the black people on the Hill and us.
There were those who lived in Sugar Hill and there was the Hollow, where we lived.
