Sublime

the papers of the Southern Conference Education Fund, is my mother talking in 1974 about the indigenous prison struggle, meaning Black Southerners recognizing that locking people up was a tool of social control.

We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”

I want the future generations of Black contributors to know they’re living a shared experience but with more opportunity than those who preceded them. I want my children to read this and know they are endowed with the inalienable rights to be their most authentic selves without altering, suppressing, or diminishing their Blackness. To the Black pro

Moynihan Report,

We have stopped investing in the development of commitment and responsibility in our youth. We have stopped teaching them about the sacredness of all life. Instead, we send them off to be trained by those operating and maintaining the broken systems that are brokering our death.

Paradoxically, many of these disciplinary policies are akin to the progressive vision espoused by eugenicists like Karl Pearson, justifying harsh discipline as a means to “close academic disparities.” Schooling becomes standardized testing without creative expression, arbitrary rules without room to breathe, Black Excellence without Black Joy.