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"Changes to mission statements, re-envisioning the accompanying goals and objectives, as well other types of org chart shake ups are necessary, but constitute what I’ll call symbolic reparations—i.e., payment of a debt through rituals of good will that leave in place the deeper dimensions of an organization’s self-understanding and logic. These untouched elements [are] the genesis...of those more apparent elements .... What needs to be discussed are more substantive methods of paying this debt."

"An abolition humanist manifesto changes the nature and consequences of obligation because the debt isn’t named and determined by those benefiting from white privilege; but rather, it is set by those whose presence had been denied but used. Not the majority writing its aims for those who’ve been marginalized, but those who’ve been marginalized stating demands and the cost attached to those demands."

"To the extent the contemporary humanist movement and its earlier formulations embraced the anti-black views of figures like Hume (e.g., “Of National Characters”), Hegel (e.g., “The Philosophy of Right”) or Thomas Jefferson (e.g., “Notes on the State of Virginia”), the humanist movement has accepted and advanced thinking that served to render Africa a cultural and intellectual void, a point of value based only on raw materials, and to expose its stolen children to various forms of violence."