“Robert Kraft makes it seem like the Palestinian is the violent one, who has to be the good Negro, or the good Palestinian, or the good Indian, or the good whatever, to be right. That’s what he’s doing. So it sounds like he’s being reasonable. And that’s what they do. The oppressor acts reasonable by saying, ‘Let’s split the pie.’ But it’s not your pie. And that’s what Palestine is all about: splitting the pie. Every time I say, ‘How are we going to split the pie?’ I take another slice. I take another slice. There’s nothing left. And then if I fight back and take my slice back, they say, ‘Well, you were being unreasonable.’ And that’s the problem with Robert Kraft. That’s the problem with all of this.”
— Marc Lamont Hill
Research until the familiar becomes strange again.
Study until the ancient world recovers its color
And obey with enough humility to admit that the text may know more than the tradition through which we first encountered 🙏🏽
I can just visualize Jaylen Brown in a room of people talking to down to him like he’s an idiot. Him politely correcting them and them getting offended by it. I’ve seen it happen far too many times.