My favorite quote ever came from James Baldwin. No truer words were ever spoken:
“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.” #JamesBaldwin
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I wish he knew that many of us are trying. A girlfriend and I talked today that WE would never achieve/see color blindness [but our g-children which we both have just might-we hope]pic.twitter.com/s5mxlM1xYK
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Hey. I know you mean this in the best sense but I learned so much from reading Michelle Alexander & how the idea of "color blindness" was actually popularized by folks who did not have good intentions. It's commonly used to support racism, even now.http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/justin-gomer-christopher-petrella-reagan-used-mlk-day-undermine-racial-justice …
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Oh and here's a PDF of the first part of Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow. It's amazing. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf …
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And just because I'm a big nerdy educator, I've spent the last few hours putting this together. Figure I'll need it for my students at some point.https://twitter.com/InterminableVi/status/1025116175829594112 …
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This passage says it all, beautifully, and so relevant still. What an incredible man and writer.pic.twitter.com/XCj9lfIXX5
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I remember distinctly the time nearly forty years ago during which I came to understand that I could never become a writer. I'd just ETS'd from Fort Bragg in 1979 and was driving purposelessly around the country. I drove around for nearly a year. It was then, during the month
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when I’d read these five books—Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” Derrida’s “Of Grammatology,” “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens,” and Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” and “The Fire Next Time”—when I learned I knew nothing having anything to do
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Such amazing grace that we had this good and brilliant man in the world—and that his work is still with us. Thanks for publishing this again.
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tariq khuja: "You better be thinking about your soul!”
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Happy posthumous birthday.
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I am in the middle of reading this now. Much of it is still relevant today.
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"You better be thinking about your soul!”
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article on white supremacist "colorblind" ideology. Thing is I, like so many 80s/Reagan era kids, was taught this was a high ideal when, in reality, it's a powerfully white supremacist one that drowns out the lived realities of Black folks.