I’m not black but if I were I’m pretty sure I’d be offended by this.

“I also appreciate that the hunger strikers are not trying to die, they’re trying to generate autonomy in the context of something that strips their humanity — something we certainly know about from the experience of American slavery, and that the language of ‘before I be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord and be free’ — just that idea of creating human freedom within the context of horrible human conditions.”

Via Daily Caller