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In history, in the way i was certainly brought up, my beliefs about the world run contrary to that. the soul is part of the body. the mind is part of the body. from my perspective. when folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul is damaged, too. the mind is damaged, too. the soul cannot escape. the mind cannot escape. you think of the violence done to, say, rodney king when he's beat down by all of the police officers. no matter what the settlement was, i suspect he never recovered from that. i suspect the people that came out of the experience of ens...

Something that white supremacy has taken overtime. why is that word central to your understanding of how racism operates in america? >> racism is a physical experience. that can't be lost. i think there's a tradition. probably a necessary tradition. in african-american thinking african-american theology. certainly of speaking of the body as a thing that's taken, triumphing or the mind triumphing. my experience in this country as an african-american, my reading in history, in the way i was certainly brought up my beliefs about the world run contrary to that. the soul is part of the body. the mi...