Racism
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Racism
His message focused on the urgency of a radical change in the inner attitude of the people. He recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory of the spirit against them. “To revile because one has been
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
what I call minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed. Minor feelings arise, for instance, upon hearing a slight, knowing it’s racial, and
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism:
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Hate as a Defense Mechanism, Reciprocity, and Consistency | James Clear
Over the course of the twentieth century, Haitians, escaping poverty and unrest, sought refuge in the Bahamas as well. It was and remains a deeply stratified place, sitting at a crossroads, with the global elites and their tax havens at the top and poor Haitians living in shanties at the bottom. It is one of the tragic ironies of global history
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
(Another view of Elvis, from Billboard magazine in 1958, stated, “In one aspect of America’s cultural life, integration has already taken place.”)
Rebecca Solnit • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
Contemplative space is hard to define. Contemplation is generally not a practice that offers immediate jolts of anything. There’s (well, usually) no chatty/ethery response from on high, no neatly cleared path unfurling after a good long think. In fact, more often it feels like “nothing” at all is happening in that open space. The “soft”... See more
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
“Because the new racial climate in America forbids the open expression of racially based feelings, views, and positions, when whites discuss issues that make them uncomfortable, they become almost incomprehensible.”7 Probing forbidden racial issues results in verbal incoherence—digressions, long pauses, repetition, and self-corrections.