Start looking at Sexism and Racism. Is this history we are just learning, or history we are not supposed to know. You decide.
Equality isn't a box
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“I’ve always had an interest in American racial history,” she continues,
“and I think we can see that there are still wounds that haven’t been
properly healed. I know that it’s frightening for people to talk about
but unless you do, they’re never going to be healed. We’re learning that
this isn’t something to be solved; it’s a continuing conversation.
Equality isn’t a box we can just tick and be done with.” - Ruth Negga
“Loving is tapping into something, and it’s not about
politics... People need a couple like Richard and Mildred now; they need
to know that change from a grassroots level is possible, that there is
hope...”
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
~Kahlil Gibran (1883 –1931), Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer.
sexism is the primal, or first, form of oppression in humanity
Sexism is a form of oppression and domination. As author Octavia Butler put it, "Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world."
Amidst a surge in white supremacist violence across the country, the time has come to reconsider how American museums are presenting European art. “Globalization,” “interconnectivity,” and “diversity” are more than
museum “buzzwords”; they are the battles white supremacists are
fighting.
The two most ruthless domestic slave traders in America had a secret language for their business.
Slave trading was a “game.” The men, Isaac Franklin and John
Armfield, were daring “pirates” or “one-eyed men,” a euphemism for their
penises. The women they bought and sold were “fancy maids,” a term
signifying youth, beauty and potential for sexual exploitation
— by buyers or the traders themselves.
Rapes happened often.
“To my certain knowledge she has been used & that smartly by a
one eyed man about my size and age, excuse my foolishness,”
Isaac Franklin’s nephew James — an employee and his uncle’s protege
— wrote in typical business correspondence, referring to Caroline
Brown, an enslaved woman who suffered repeated rape and abuse at
James’s hands for five months. She was 18 at the time and just over five
feet tall.
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live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of very poor
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toddler into a coma -- one-tenth of that amount will lower his IQ.Nearly
two of every five African American homes in Baltimore are plagued by
lead-based paint. Almost all of the 37,500 Baltimore children who
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