That's how Zurara and people who agreed with him were able to use the Bible as a justification for slavery.

In this case, a “smoker” was the name for a pornographic show, either live or filmed.

Oh, yes, That is a painful boomerang moment for nearly everyone.

He seems to be using a 1-to-1 relationship between the words “Blackness” and “invisibility”, between “Black” and “invisible”, such that the title could read, “The Black Man”.

For younger readers, reefer is an older term for weed/marijuana.

I read this as the bad side of whiteness, the whiteness which has always been legitimized as “correct”.

...but he can’t change the whole country, lie, cheat, riot, send people to violent because he’s mad he lost the election.

That means “Forward always” in Spanish; the speaker referring to the next Representative as “the gentleman from....excuse me, the gentlewoman from...” reminds us that we have to be flexible, we have to be willing to adapt and change. There...

The rest is blurry, unclear. She doesn’t know what’s coming, but it’s worrisome.

I wonder if he thought he had to tie up a car like you tie up a horse to a post...