Years ago, I started a fund for Native American students and one for African-Americans. I tell you this not to toot my own horn, but to underline that in my opinion — people of color are the soul of America. The oppression they've endured, and still come out with hope — is inconceivable. As the brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates says in Between the World and Me, “The black diaspora not only was just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself.”
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