ON WORSHIPPING THE DEAD IN [US]AMERICA

“We get the day off for Columbus Day, y’all. He dead. We celebrate Christmas! Jesus ain’t die? They got statues up for dead guys that owned people. Name buildings after ‘em. Entire colleges that they bully us about getting accepted to. America don’t workshop the dead? C’mon now! America worship the dead! It’s cool when white America do it, but we can’t worship our dead?” 

— Daniel José Older, Shadowhouse Fall