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Holy crap - such a quick, engaging read! Wilddddd.

"Whatever one Rasta man may think of his daughter also became my father's view, which became the other man's view of his daughter and so on.
They cultivated a fragile ecosystem of beliefs, each trying to outdo the other for who was most militant, whose daughter was most humble."

"I looked out the window and reached for the future. There, my hopes hardened into something beautiful again; a kaleidoscope of possible selves beckoning and disappearing at the same time: one girl moving through a splintered world that branched into herself and herself and herself."

Commuting listen.
Whoa, the emotions at this first quarter. The long list of no's in a fundamentalist household.

"I tried to erase what I started, wash my weary burdens
by ignoring you but words look like ghosts when you erase them."

"Southern members of congress feared that labor rights organizing would blend with + fuel civil rights activism, + they were frightened that an active federal government might level wages across racial lines- creating a national labor market, causing blacks to leave the south, diminish the southern establishment's control over those who stayed, + directly challenge Jim Crow practices."

"(1940s) Faced with the surprising rise of labor in the region, + a continuing attempt by members of The New Deal Coalition to create a more expansive federal administration to control labor that might not yield where issues of race intersected with those of employment, southern lawmakers feared that labor rights organizing would blend with civil rights activism."

"...equal opportunity is essential, but not enough." -LBJ

Oh my.
Bittersweet😭
"Time can wash dirt off a memory until it is revealed as something else entirely."

Oh my gosh

"...There is zero comfort in that sentiment.

I don't want a new tomorrow. I want a new yesterday."

Fuck fuck fuck.

Only 7% in and this thought life chapter is hitting home as far as the church I grew up in☠️

Damn this one is fascinating + heartbreaking.

Listening to this while I paint the planks and joists underneath a deck. Whewwww.

"Neoliberalism (viewing ourselves as consumers instead of citizens + communities) pushes schools to focus on the winners - those exceptional students who will be successful by limited metrics - and to abandon students who might lead to inefficiencies."

Magnet, private + charter schools live this out, as well as property-tax based school funding methods.

"Any enterprise dealing with the care + nurturing of children is likely to be inefficient at times, + striving for efficiency (in public education as well as other contexts) often requires sacrificing things like care, patience, + flexibility."

Even more impactful than my first read-thru several years ago.