Racism
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Racism
Kindness is the water of humanity. Without water, we harden. Kindness is an attitude, an aspiration, and a practice.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
This is commitment work. This work is hard. There is no way to sugarcoat it. White supremacy is an evil. It is a system of oppression that has been designed to give you benefits at the expense of the lives of BIPOC, and it is living inside you as unconscious thoughts and beliefs. The process of examining it and dismantling it will necessarily be
... See moreLayla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
This is really the form that the dilemma takes. It is not solely a question of keeping the body alive; it is rather how not to be killed. Not to be killed becomes the great end, and morality takes its meaning from that center. Until that center is shifted, nothing real can be accomplished. It is the uncanny and perhaps unwitting recognition of this
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
We recognize that while the primary reason that slavery is a moral abomination is what it does to the people who are enslaved, there is something deeply corrupting about being someone who treats someone else as property. I’m not saying it’s the same thing as slavery, but there’s a depravity in treating a person as nothing but a means to your end.... See more
Sublime • Oliver Burkeman is doubling down on the purely human
Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or... See more
Felix de Rosen • Sensing Towards Personal & Cultural Transformation
Sovereignty: Who is ultimately in control, and how? Is there too much reliance on external resources? What happens to the value that derives from labor and culture? How easy is it for individuals and communities to exit if they so choose? • Democracy: How can participants be part of the flows of power? Are those flows explicitly stated and widely
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