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@Jason_Reads

Lecturer and Writer-in-Residence Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Writing a book on empathy for .

Wrestling with words and ideas
scholar.harvard.edu/silverstein
Joined February 2009
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    16 Oct 2017

    Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you— But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. —Langston Hughes

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    Jun 6

    Author 's upcoming book on empathy will be published Summer 2019, read him in the today!

    "The plantation is the Rorschach test for America’s soul: You either see moonlight and magnolias or a crime scene." My latest for on whitewashed memories of slavery:
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  3. May 31

    "The plantation is the Rorschach test for America’s soul: You either see moonlight and magnolias or a crime scene." My latest for on whitewashed memories of slavery:

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  4. Apr 26

    Jim Crow was legally outlawed in 1964, but many of its health effects are only now emerging for black Americans who lived under its racist rule in their early childhoods. My new piece for

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  5. Mar 19

    Trump's plan to execute drug dealers is about empathy for white addicts and killing people of color closer to import flows. Me in

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  6. 22 Nov 2017

    Things to talk to racist relatives about at Thanksgiving: —How to avoid jury duty —Why their vote doesn't count —Why it makes little sense for them to become a landlord —Why it doesn't pay to become a cop —How teaching is depressing —What the advantages are of becoming sterilized

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  7. 10 Oct 2017

    Hold up. Now he's playing Ani DiFranco's Untouchable Face? Who is this guy? My new friend, let's hope.

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  8. 10 Oct 2017

    I'd say let's ditch class and smoke a blunt but I teach the class?

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  9. 10 Oct 2017

    Was having a painful morning but my taxi driver cranked up The Cranberries Dreams and the windows are down and I don't want this to end

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  10. 21 Sep 2017

    "Criminal history” needs to be added to the University’s non-discrimination policies, including financial aid:

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  11. 21 Sep 2017

    Proud to join the faculty protest of Harvard's decision to overturn Michelle Jones admission & fellowship

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  12. Retweeted
    14 Aug 2017

    Going from city to city smashing US monuments to racism would be a great reality series.

    UNITED STATES: Protestors have toppled a Confederate monument in North Carolina
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  13. Retweeted
    26 Jul 2017

    ICON.

    I'm reminded of this image. It's of David Wojnarowicz, at an ACT UP rally. He died in '92 & his ashes were scattered on the White House lawn
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    14 Jun 2017

    every time u weigh in on how an assault survivor is "supposed to act" there's a chance ur saying it to someone who never told u she is one

    I believe Andrea Constand.
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    5 Jun 2017

    Worth reading A. Van Jordan’s excellent poetry collection MACNOLIA about the 1936 spelling bee:

    For decades, segregated local spelling bees shut black students out of advancing to the National Bee.
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