You can be one of the most popular figures on the cultural landscape and it won't matter; if white racists don't like you, you're controversial and polarizing. White racists are meanwhile never framed as divisive or polarizing, no, they're always "concerned" or "anxious."

i cannot be dissuaded from the belief that something approaching utopia is simple, obvious, and within reach. it is the source of my unrelenting optimism and unrelenting rage

Shout out to big cities. FUCK Middle America

i think it was the great screenwriter william goldsmith who famously said there are only three stories in all the world. a man goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and people fighting their way up and/or down a high-rise building