“The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being.”
— Toni Morrison
A Conversation with Toni Morrison
From a 1975 interview, Morrison analyzing the psychological toll of systemic racism as a mechanism of exhaustion and deflection.
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