What would happen if migrants on boats with limited resources were also seen as brave explorers gifted with curiosity and wonder for depths unknown, I wonder.
"Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities..."
—Sylvia Wynter
(Image via the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Just passed the site of the Combahee Ferry Raid on our way to Savannah. On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the U.S. when she and 150 Black Union soldiers rescued more than 700 enslaved Gullah Geechee during the Civil War.
I don't want to read any more stories about teachers who have to change their Black Studies class. I want stories about teachers who are resisting the AP changes. I want to hear about parents organizing freedom schools. I want to see students sit in libraries with banned books
Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.