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From Emmett Till to Ralph Yarl
Another young black ma
Reading articles from years gone by, frozen newspaper photos at odds with white supremacy marching on across the decades since those men tortured, killed and gloated about killing a young teenage boy. In 1992, one of Emmett Till’s murderers complained that,”Emmett Till is dead. I don’t know why he can’t stay dead.” The murder of black men and boys in the United States continues, and the architecture of white privilege has yet to be dismantled. As T. Coates writes in Between the World and Me, “There is nothing uniquely evil in these destroyers…they are merely men enforcing the whims of our country, correctly interpreting its heritage and legacy. It is hard to face this. But all our phrasings — race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy — serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that is dislodges the brain, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
I wish to add the categories “pain,” “outrage” and “allyship” to my Word Press drop down menu
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Join us at #EcologiesofJustice for the brilliant Jayson Porter. What an intellectual treat!
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Looking forward to All Our Kin….
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Challenging Conceptions discount code
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Looking forward to sharing ideas with my colleagues at Rutgers in the Paul Robeson Speaker Series.
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Delighted to speak at the Tinker Symposium, University of Arizona
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Challenging Conceptions: Children born of rape and sexual exploitation is available for pre-order.
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The Supreme Court is Just Getting Started
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Roe v. Wade Overturned: Are you as outraged as I am?
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Legacies of War, available for pre-order with discount from Duke University Press.