Racism Runs Through Enlightenment Philosophy

America’s Unholy Ghosts’ by Joel Edward Goza

Tucker Lieberman
Books Are Our Superpower
5 min readApr 25, 2023

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Growing up as the white son of a Southern Baptist deacon in the suburbs of Houston, Joel Edward Goza attended white churches. When he moved to a neighborhood of immigrants, he came to understand street violence. He says one shooting “broke my peace with the status quo.”

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