America seems intent on repeating its history of Black oppression with book bans

America has a race problem, and it has abandoned all pretensions to hide it. We need only to do an autopsy on 2023 to witness this toxic brew of racial animosity boil over, in full public view. The days of the so-called post-racial, colorblind America are long behind us, if they ever existed. White legislators in statehouses and boards across the U.S. seized power to institute openly anti-Black laws, resolutions and decrees. Take, for example, the recent decision by an all-white Missouri school board to remove Black history classes and books from the district’s course offerings. This act of Bl...