Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into.

Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to the way in which those contradictions can be both understood and is sometimes actually used to the benefit of people who need them.