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Alan Mills

Alan Mills

As Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, abolition is not about tearing down; it is about building.

Jul 3

Jul 3

Alan Mills

First, well done!

Second, dissents are for the long-term. Her powerful dissent won't change a thing...today. But a decade or two from now, one can easily…

Jul 3

Jul 3

Alan Mills

My personal favorite version of The Sky Is Crying is Stevie Ray Vaughn's, for the same reason that…

But I completely agree with your theory that context of exposure matters--a lot. I especially love the analogy of a bottle of wine at a…

Jun 24

Jun 24

Alan Mills

Your observation:

"To properly understand how meaning is attached to historic objects, we must examine who historians are listening to. Mostly, this is other…

Jun 23

Jun 23

Alan Mills

"How many white players, or white people for that matter, are called thugs?"

Those fouls were a LOT harder than anything Reese did to Clark. But of course, the races were reversed.

Jun 21

Jun 21

Alan Mills

Lots of truth here.

But one issue you don't address is the problem in Jazz--which was invented by and mostly performed by Black artists, but has never had a…

Jun 21

Jun 21

Alan Mills

Well done.

Jun 18

Jun 18

Alan Mills

It isn't just "The tactics now closely resemble those used after reconstruction.

I am currently suing a prison in southern Illinois which fired a civics teacher for insisting that poll taxes and literacy tests were used…

Jun 8

Jun 8

Alan Mills

All true, but I don't think that is what King was referring to regarding the "burning house."

Sadly, all of those criticisms on the United States moral failures continue to hold true today.

Jun 4

Jun 4

Alan Mills

I question whether the problem is in fact the private market/capitalism.

Jun 1

Jun 1

Alan Mills

Alan Mills

Executive Director @uplcchicago . UPLC represents tenants, the disabled and prisoners throughout Illinois. "Notorious for fighting IDOC."

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