Ah, yes, the chapter ends today. Tomorrow we start a new one.
I started reading through Vanity Fair’s (The Great Fire) September issue. Whites in Chicago equating the First Great Migration of blacks to the “calamity” of the Great Fire of 1871. The belief in black people as a disaster, calamity, a Great Fire. And the haunting repercussion; once a people become a “calamity,” all means of dealing with them are acceptable. …To plunder a people of everything, you must plunder their humanity first. A haunting feeling as I read these unsettling lines from Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Whiteness thrives in darkness. It has to. It is fully permissible for a thousand Eric Garners to be TORTURED TO DEATH IN THE SHADOWS of the American carceral system, the most sprawling gulag known to man. And so evil does its business in the shadows, ever-fearing, not the heat of THE GREAT FIRE but the light. To clearly see what this country has done, what it is still doing, to construct itself is too much for any human to take. So it was with the slave narrative. So it is with the cell phone.
Quote of the month for me:
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
-Angela Davis
Love watching @isitdanidawks up-cycle clothes.
Accurate depiction of me working from home. Kaavia is always a mood.
Chadwick Boseman, rest well King. Wakanda forever.
Xo.
