yeah, no, I really like, riding that line between fiction and nonfiction ( Read more... )

Interesting, after the first introductory chapter outlines some themes of Critical Race Theory, the second chapter immediately digs into one of the intellectual divides within Critical Race Theory. This is an academic discipline, and it is typical for academics to hold vigorous intellectual debates ( Read more... )

How Republicans view Critical Race Theory: "the idea that contemporary whites bear some kind of effectively hereditary guilt for the actions of slavers and segregationists"

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I think Republicans are trying to avoid "hereditary guilt" because they don't want to do anything about racism. Fixing racism and cutting taxes are incompatible goals ( Read more... )

(1) -- Racism is so much the ordinary everyday experience of POC that White people don't even see it ( Read more... )

I talked with Ben about Dax, told him about how I fell apart so painfully last weekend with B, spoke about being there aside Dax as he passed,

this time I didn't fall apart, which isn't necessarily a good thing, except I know Dax would want me to be happy/pappy,

For the rest of my life I will be able to cry upon demand, that wasn't a thing before

Meditated this morning again, of course, or I wouldn't be writing this.  You'll know when I pause meditating again because you won't see a new post on that day.

Yesterday morning while I was grumpy, I could feel a renewed critical distance between my Ego and the rest of me, I could not stop my Ego from getting grumpy and feeling a righteous anger at ( Read more... )