QUOTATIONS OF "BLACK"
"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."
- Fred Wilson
"Most of my fortitude to continue doing the work comes from the moral outrage I feel about the injustices that Black people endure disproportionately daily."
- N. Abdul-Wakil
"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."
- Dredlocks Tree
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Years ago, I was teaching Special Ed students at a school run by lesbian nuns. I got along great with the nuns, but the resident priest didn't like me. One friday he came into my classroom and told my students "Monday school is closed to celebrate Columbus Day, and we celebrate Columbus because he brought christianity to the new world"
ReplyDeleteI interrupted to say "in addition to slavery, genocide and venereal disease" The priest never came to my classroom, or spoke to me again, and for the past twenty years, I have celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday in October.
Stephen Maglott
it goes to show that the victors write HIStory, I've always wondered how do you discover a land with people already on it? Then proceed to wipe both their culture and presence from that land, not mentioning the fact that there were explorers that predate Columbo by thousands of years from other countries that visited the Americas.
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