https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Silliman

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494102154839306240.html

On Yale not giving tenure to Michael W. Kraus...

1) To history we owe our frames of reference, our identities and our aspirations...battle with historical creation attempts to re-create oneself according to principle more humane and more liberating 2) To wrestle with it and finally accept it to bring myself out of it 3) Personal incoherence from unable to release themselves from history 4) Do not blame me, I was not there. I did not do it. 5) in private chamber of his hear...he does not wish to pay..has profited so much 6) Deserving of our fate..fear black people long to do to others what has been done to them 7) Color Curtain 8) "trust life and it will teach you in joy and sorrow, all you need to know" 9) White man barricaded behind guilt...junkies on hundred dollar a day habits

This is such a powerful articulation--borrowed from Baldwin as the epigraph makes clear--of the social construct of whiteness.