Racism
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Racism
Afrofuturism is typically defined as a Black cultural aesthetic that explores the intersections of the African diaspora and technology––or, in other words, a form of Black science fiction.
Black writer and performer Neema Githere writes about what she calls “ Afropresentism ,” which she defines as a “teaching genre” that “channels your ancestry
... See moremary retta • close but not quite
Perhaps you’ve known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Hatred, I learned quickly, was the antidote to sadness. It was the only safe feeling. Hatred does not make you cry at school. It isn’t vulnerable. Hatred is efficient. It does not grovel. It is pure power.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
A key difference between the Black experience and immigrant experience is lack of opportunity. As tough as immigrants had it, their core experience was rooted in opportunity. That opportunity was sometimes a dangling carrot, but there was no carrot for slaves.
The aggry beads later came to be known as slave beads for the role they played in fueling the slave trade of Africans to Europeans and North Americans.
Saifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
This is the true nature of awareness. When investigating our habits of mind, it can be helpful to open our awareness to include all that is in the mirror, without fixation or preferences.
Ruth King • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
I truly had not realized that Harlem had so many stores until I saw them all smashed open; the first time the word wealth ever entered my mind in relation to Harlem was when I saw it scattered in the streets. But one’s first, incongruous impression of plenty was countered immediately by an impression of waste. None of this was doing anybody any
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
do not seek to explain or resolve the question of this exclusion in terms of assimilation, inclusion, or civil or human rights, but rather depict aesthetically the impossibility of such resolutions by representing the paradoxes of blackness within and after the legacies of slavery’s denial of Black humanity. I name this paradox the wake, and I use
... See moreChristina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
In other words, Coltrane practiced or enacted a concept of tradition, community, and identity (in sound) that sonically expressed and illustrated for black people a range of possibilities for crafting individual and collective selves into a more expansive and complex notion of blackness.