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To talk about pain without expressing pain is to expect a human to recall information like a robot.
“While Americans view the Revolutionary War as a conflict fought from Maine to Florida, France actually forced Britain to fight the Revolution as a world war, defending its outposts in India, Jamaica, and Africa. The British had to divert most of their celebrated navy from the American coast to defend against French attacks elsewhere.‡”
― The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
― The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
“color blindness is an act of gaslighting. It is a cruel way of making BIPOC believe that they are just imagining they are being treated the way they are being treated because of their skin color, thus keeping them in a position of destabilization and inferiority.”
― Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
― Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
“Is there any feeling as delicious as the beginning of a new adventure? To be perched upon the precipice of a fresh endeavor, poised for flight, the winds of change ruffling the feathers, ah, that is what it means to be alive!”
― A Dangerous Collaboration
― A Dangerous Collaboration
“Between the Stamp Act of 1765 and Lexington a decade later, one of the colonists’ most widespread tools of resistance against arbitrary taxation without representation was boycotting British imports, particularly luxury items. While the melodrama of hucking crates of tea into Boston Harbor continues to inspire civic-minded hotheads to this day, it’s worth remembering the hordes of stoic colonial women who simply swore off tea and steeped basil leaves in boiling water to make the same point. What’s more valiant: littering from a wharf or years of doing chores and looking after”
― Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
― Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
“The promise of the Church of Color Blindness is that if we stop seeing race, then racism goes away. That racism will go away not through awakening consciousness of privilege and racial harm, not through systemic and institutional change, not through addressing imbalances in power, not through making amends for historical and current-day harm, but instead by simply acting as if the social construct of race has no actual consequences—both for those with white privilege and those without it. The belief is that if you act as if you do not see color, you will not do anything racist or benefit from racism. And if you teach your children to not see race too, you can create a new generation of people who will not do anything racist or benefit from racism.”
― Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
― Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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