Next level anti-racism work
I was raised in Virginia. We left when I was 12 and I was shocked to discover upon entering a Yankee middle school that the south had lost the Civil War. I thought it had been kind of like a draw. The anti-racism work that I learned in college at Michigan State University and that I did on my own after that eventually felt stale. My generations work felt like it had stopped at a point where it was no longer creative or truly moving toward a better place. It felt recycled -the same tropes, the same stories, the same unsatisfactory endings. This next level of journalism brought a way of looking at things that felt good to my soul. It's not that we are responsible for the crimes of past white generations, but that we bare the responsibility for knowing how we have what we have, and who made that possible for us. And how to pay forward the debts that we incurred along the centuries.Read full review »
Snakeladylibrarian via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 04/06/23
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