sometimes i wonder what it takes for you to sign off with solidarity forever. over so vast a gulf as you describe here. sometimes it seems as though this may be the death throes of home sacer here. it is the case that black people, and other people of color, occupy many roles and statuses in this society that were utterly unthinkable before reconstruction, and mightily crushed by what followed for the reasons you outline above. (i would add, in the construction of the jim crow laws, the twisted psychological state of white southerners at the time, having fought to keep people as property, having been humiliatingly beaten, and then required to share power with their own former property. i don't like psychologizing political violence but i'm pretty sure a lot of white southerners might have feared the retribution they deserved, also driving them to drive ex-slaves down. that germany has done as much as it has to rewire that twisted psychology is interesting to me and used to give me hope. now i'm not sure we are morally capable of (letting alone properly educated to understand ourselves historically), let alone motivated to, come to terms with who we would be if we owned, and found some way to at least symbolically pay off, that debt.
History repeats itself... I feel we were never meant to succeed the way we have in this country and because of many successes we suffer still... As a woman of color, I thought we had grown... I thought folks would begin to see our value and the contributions we have made to help build America... I thought we were moving past color... I am sadly mistaken... “I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” — Denzel Washington... "Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness." — Janelle Monae... Such a powerful essay!! Continue to teach and enlighten we need you more than ever... Solidarity Forever...
Painful and powerful words. Thank you.
sometimes i wonder what it takes for you to sign off with solidarity forever. over so vast a gulf as you describe here. sometimes it seems as though this may be the death throes of home sacer here. it is the case that black people, and other people of color, occupy many roles and statuses in this society that were utterly unthinkable before reconstruction, and mightily crushed by what followed for the reasons you outline above. (i would add, in the construction of the jim crow laws, the twisted psychological state of white southerners at the time, having fought to keep people as property, having been humiliatingly beaten, and then required to share power with their own former property. i don't like psychologizing political violence but i'm pretty sure a lot of white southerners might have feared the retribution they deserved, also driving them to drive ex-slaves down. that germany has done as much as it has to rewire that twisted psychology is interesting to me and used to give me hope. now i'm not sure we are morally capable of (letting alone properly educated to understand ourselves historically), let alone motivated to, come to terms with who we would be if we owned, and found some way to at least symbolically pay off, that debt.
OK..this is a good one. It's important to see things in an historical context. Fear...control...power...Acquiesce or Resist?
Before you decide...Educate
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History repeats itself... I feel we were never meant to succeed the way we have in this country and because of many successes we suffer still... As a woman of color, I thought we had grown... I thought folks would begin to see our value and the contributions we have made to help build America... I thought we were moving past color... I am sadly mistaken... “I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” — Denzel Washington... "Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness." — Janelle Monae... Such a powerful essay!! Continue to teach and enlighten we need you more than ever... Solidarity Forever...