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As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it’s probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.

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We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you’re young you think that’s how life works.

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That’s what ‘Star Trek’ was: We don’t know how to make an ideal society, but we’re going to portray that, and then we’re going to work backward. I think that’s why science fiction – despite the dystopian parts – comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.

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May 14, 2024

That’s what ‘Star Trek’ was: We don’t know how to make an ideal society, but we’re going to portray that, and then we’re going to work backward. I think that’s why science fiction – despite the dystopian parts – comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.

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May 14, 2024

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you’re young you think that’s how life works.

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