The Odyssey really said “You think the Trojan war was the birth of western civilization? Fine, yeah it was, but that means the birth of western civilization was built on deceit, the genocidal sacking of a city, the desecration of the gods, and the end of common hospitality”
It’s 250 years of freedom for white men only.
It’s 106 years of voting freedom for white women.
It’s 72 years of voting freedom for Asian immigrants.
It’s 61 years of voting freedom for Black people.
It’s 51 years of voting rights for Native Peoples, but we all know that’s a farce when their lands were stripped from them and their ways of life were classified illegal.
It’s 10 years of marriage freedom for queer couples.
It’s 0 years of voting freedom for Puerto Ricans.
Michelle Obama on the portrait with Obama.
Q: You are in the foreground. You are not in the background.
Michelle: That's because I married a man who isn't threatened by having a smart challenging partner. And that's another way to be a man. To lead and co-lead at the same time. That's a testament to the way my husband was raised and how he sees the world.
FYI: The biggest celebration of America’s 250th anniversary may end up being the opening of the Obama Presidential Library.
A quarter millennium after the nation’s founding, the first Black president’s legacy will have a permanent home on Chicago’s South Side.
History has a way of picking its own milestones. 🇺🇸
the internal conversation that Black Americans need to have amongst themselves that leading Black academics have failed us, that once they allied themselves with their white DSA colleagues in their respective fields of study they placed themselves at odds with Black interests