STOP booking non-Indigenous people to talk about Indigenous people, issues, history, culture, concerns, languages, identity. Indigenous people have the expertise and a voice on themselves.
I have found myself often saying, "Why is it that everything I want to do also terrifies me?"
I cling to the words in Matt 28:8, when the women run from the empty tomb, "afraid yet filled with joy."
That's the goal: afraid yet filled with joy. Afraid but letting joy lead.
In the very back of most refrigerators is a bottle that's been there 5 years, possibly longer. You no longer know what is floating in its murky depths of yuck, and you'd never eat it, but it stays there.
Brooding.
Mutating.
Waiting.
@CanRevAgency hello, I just got a call from one of your agent who was not helpful one bit. She was supposed to review my CRB applications. Throughout the call she kept interrupting and even threatened to write a bad report on my file. She dropped the call on me without explaining
Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile. To preserve it requires people of good will, leaders with the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to pursuit of power and personal interest at any cost, but to the common good.
As an African-American who traces his roots to the Ibos of eastern Nigeria, I take particular pride in this milestone. Shout out to my friends in Lagos and Abuja and beyond, including Pastor @PaulAdefarasin and @PastorEAAdeboye.
Congratulations to Nigerians everywhere, including the estimated hundreds of thousands here in the United States, on the 60th independence anniversary of their amazing country. #NigeriaAt60
"Women have a hard time putting ourselves on our priority list, talk less of putting ourselves at the top of it. We almost feel guilty about putting ourselves first" - @MichelleObama#EssenceFest#EssenceFest2019