![]() ![]() We have become deeply divided, hostile, suspicious, and less able to work together to solve pressing common problems. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” - James BaldwinĪs a society, we have spent enormous amounts of time engaged in bitter conflicts, hostile debates, and adversarial exchanges over racism and policing, sexism and sexual harassment, homophobia and gay marriage, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, immigration and border walls, poverty and homelessness, trans athletes and gendered bathrooms, America First and global warming, Civil War statues and teaching about slavery, accusations and denials of bias, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and similar issues. “It is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. ![]() “Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.” - Christopher Hill There will always be one more thing.”- Toni Morrison Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. “The function, the very serious function of racism, . . . ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |