Category: Represent Our Resistance

Who are these humans who desire to live in a democratic society, but who allow for the co-opting of ideas about democracy, the work and the creatively to bring it into existence, by the tyrants among them who seize on an opportunity to eliminate civil liberties, even the memory of civil liberties, until nothing resembling life remains on the landscape.

Any acknowledgment of African American existence must first go through whites in control of the neoliberal narrative and who, in turn, provide the model “ideal” African Americans for other whites to accept as authentic, legitimate, human.

the gun carriers want the economy flowing again over the dead and dying bodies of people of color.

Keep the physical distance! Keep the physical distance! It’s a dance of sorts, as we pay close attention to the closest person to our left and to our right. Who’s in front of me and should I slow down to keep the six feet between us?

change is happening. The witches are stirring, things are brewing outside the seats of power. Even in our own homes and apartments. Underfoot, the people are thinking critically and wisely about the immediate future of this planet, about capitalism’s fostering of heartlessness of racism and fascism. The stamping out of life by the heartless is destroyed, once and for all, on the battlefield.

More than 89% of black and Latinx patients, however, suffer from underlying health conditions. Few want to talk about why because to do so would be to become other than self and think beyond the “normal” and engage in listening to blacks and Latinx. But, in America, it’s so much easier to serve a corporate schedule of appointments, fifteen minutes and out! Next on the schedule!

“Denmark’s public and private investment in the development of new qualifications and skills is one of the highest in Europe. The idea is to maintain a highly qualified and well-educated workforce that can succeed in a global knowledge economy.”

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”