-what I'm about to ask you I'm not asking you because I'm black, though I still reserve the right to make that a big fucking part of whatever the fuck I ask you, because it's the very fucking least I deserve: do you truly believe a young black man growing up on those streets ever had a fair chance of acquiring the conscience determined and cultivated by a class that, while demanding it of everyone, through legislative action denies anyone of lesser privilege access to its creation? Conscience, like everything else true in this life, is not God-given but world-made. And a world that is unequal in its distribution of privilege must accept that the values it manifests are of its own doing.
( Mark Z. Danielewski )
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