someone said “Black people weren’t allowed to read at a point in history… and you’re a Black librarian, do you think about how powerful that is?”
and i had to pause
sometimes you don’t even frame your life in that context, but when you do, it becomes very clear that what you’re doing is layered with history, resistance, and legacy.
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur
On this day in 1774, Black residents in the Massachusetts Bay colony, detained as slaves, declared in a petition that they were born free. https://t.co/64HOSElajT
Historian here, hope everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend brought to you by former slaves, who decorated the graves of Union soldiers after the Civil War with flowers. My conversation with Sheila Horvitz, my favorite local podcaster in Connecticut! https://t.co/lqMQ61WfTh
Something interesting you might not have realized:
A number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable...
But VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.
-SUSpect/susPECT
-CONflict/conFLICT
-PROtest/proTEST
-CONvert/conVERT
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