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is a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

is dehumanizing. The first time one is seated behind a curtain in a dining car, it feels as if the curtain is dropped on one's selfhood.

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

is nowhere more pronounced than in church. The most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

is, in an earlier era, the government enforcement of that which now occurs naturally at golf tournaments and hiphop concerts.

In an earlier era, the government enforcement of that which now occurs naturally at golf tournaments and hiphop concerts.

is the offspring of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

SEGREGATION Segregation is the offspring of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality

is less like a nightmare on the brain of the living than it is like a lingering hangover which is gradually going away.

Omi and Winant view the past of North American slavery and legal segregation as not weighing "like a nightmare on the brain of the living," but rather as lingering on "like a hangover" that is gradually going away.(14) p.7

's result is that, during several centuries, two nations inhabiting the same country will preserve a distinct and even opposite set of manners. The integrity, gravity, and bravery of the Turks form an exact contrast to the deceit, levity and cowardice of the modem Greeks.

Where any accident, as a difference in language or religion, keeps two nations, inhabiting the same country, from mixing with one another, they will preserve during several centuries a distinct and even opposite set of manners. The integrity, gravity, and bravery of the Turks form an exact contrast to the deceit, levity and cowardice of the modem Greeks.

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