In April of 1970, with grief still palpable, the editors of Time sought to examine the complexities of Black lives and politics in the face of the white backlash during the Nixon years.
Ellison maintained that whenever the nation grows weary of the struggle toward the ideal of American democratic equality, we reach for the illusion of secession—the fantasy of a lily-white America, aiming to banish Black and brown people from the nation's moral conscience.
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