Durham Global Equity Project

Racial Economic Equity By Design:
“If capitalism can be fashioned around the idea of suppressing black lives, can it be refashioned around the idea of black parity?  Can we create a new American way of life, and subsequently transform the world?”  -Henry McKoy, Ph.D.

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"For the sake of one's children, in order to minimize the bill they must pay, one must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion – and the value placed on the color of the skin is always and everywhere and forever a delusion.

I know that what I am asking is impossible.  But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand – and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.  Everything now, we must assume is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise.

If we-- and I do mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others – do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.”

James Baldwin (1963)