“Enough flattery,” Chris said. “When do I get to be a hero?” 〰️ “Five anti-Ku Klux Klan protesters were murdered in North Carolina, in Greensboro. If the Iranian hostage crisis hadn’t started, we’d all be talking about that.” 〰️ On April 19, 1989 Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old White woman, was raped while jogging in Central Park. Twelve days later, developer Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in all four major New York City daily papers calling for the death penalty for the five Black teenagers who had been arrested and accused of the crime. 〰️ "He talks as if a world governed exclusively by White men would be absolutely normal." 〰️ His charm is in making the secret desires of his supporters acceptable. 〰️ She looked from face to face. “It’s so much worse than I’d imagined.” 〰️ Politicians ignored warnings from federal law enforcement out of fear of a backlash from emboldened right wing activists, whose fire in- a-crowded-theater speech suddenly found protection under the umbrella of new readings of the First Amendment. A Golden Age for White supremacy had begun. 〰️ Eighteen years of shadow-boxing had suddenly drawn blood. 〰️ “Is there no limit to the number of lives you plan to destroy?” 〰️ “Only the Irish, which you are not, get to drink in heaven.” 〰️ “They can’t rat on us if they’re dead.” 〰️ “It’s not like a Jesuit to play cat and mouse with the truth like this.” 〰️ “In the grand scheme of things, gastronomy is just a branch of astronomy.” 〰️ She opened the door wider. “I am about to commit an unspeakable act,” she said, wagging the baster menacingly. 〰️ “Find words to match your mountains.” 〰️