Status Updates From Knowledge in the Blood: Con...

I have literally been reading this book over years because it is so dense. It’s filled with insight and compassion, my dream is that a condensed version would be written that’s more user friendly for the average person not willing to trudge their way through academic writing.

"The goal of a postconflict pedagogy under these circumstances is first to understand the emotional, psychological and spiritual burden of indirect knowledge carried by all sides in the aftermath of conflict."

"Order trumps truth; appearance matters more than content; style conquers substance."

"This move is poignantly captured by Suren Pillay who observes "a complex shift from racialised claims of 'supremacy' to ethnicised claims to 'protection,' in so doing re-racializing 'whiteness' and re-inscribing difference through the language of 'culture.'

I'm already on fire. "Here the protests of the dominant groups center on the politics of displacement: what we used to enjoy we no longer can, because of change." Replace South Africa with America and you've got a primer on our current situation.