Racism

MJ was right. They Don’t Care About Us.

95% of people who have access to some kind of electronic device or at the very least have some semblance of a social life has heard of the United Airlines incident so I don’t feel a strong need to recap it. I can sum it up in 3 short sentences. United Airlines…

Cultural Appropriation

Today in the Reading Circle we’re going to talk about cultural appropriation.

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prelude.

Baked. The fresh strawberries I bought are sprawled across the floor. The base from the speaker vibrates throughout the room as one of Veora’s favorite songs begins to play:

Plato and Utopia in the era of Trump

“the assumption that, as the Brazilian folk song puts it, “another world is possible.” That institutions like the state, capitalism, racism and male dominance are not inevitable; that it would be possible to have a world in which these things would not exist, and…

white

when the white man
knocked on the doors of 
Our Land
we welcomed him in
(politely ignoring that he’d
kicked the doors down).
when the white man 
slit a jagged knife through
Our Home
forced (Muslim, Hindu)
neighbors apart on
Bloodied Trains
we blamed our pain on 
our own differences.
when the white man
barged into…