Hylton Memorial Chapel
Chapel in Woodbridge, Prince William County, Virginia. It turns up in How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi): chapel hosting the 2000 MLK oratorical contest where Kendi gave his self-described racist speech.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | setting | Chapel hosting the 2000 MLK oratorical contest where Kendi gave his self-described racist speech. |
How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
Source: Original · Readwise highlight
More than three thousand Black people—with a smattering of White folks—arrived that Monday morning in their Sunday best at the Hylton Memorial Chapel in Northern Virginia.
- Role: setting
- In the book: The author describes the chapel as the venue of the Prince William County MLK oratorical contest on January 17, 2000, with the speakers seated on a wide pulpit and the audience curving around a long arched pulpit runway. He paces it while delivering a speech he now calls racist, to applause.
- Why it matters: It is the stage for the book’s opening confession of internalized racist ideas; in another venue the scene would lose its church-hall oratory and the crowd’s applause that fed the cycle.