Thank you, friend. There's so much that I still don't know about indigenous people but learning and listening has truly been a blessing for me. So glad you feel the same way.
WOW! The last statement by the white interviewer with the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie when Chimamanda said of Obama: "they wanted him to be Jesus Christ" to which the interviewer replied "well he couldn't be" and she was inferring to his skin colour unless I read that wrong. I don't think she was inferring to the impossibility of anyone being like Jesus Christ. - she had been pretty literal in her questions. Hmm. That interview felt a bit like the "white washing" you tube video you posted last week- that one has really stuck in my head. Maybe the interviewer should have watched the Chrs Roc documentary on Blackness and the hair industry. It is so good!
Good observations and I think I agree with you about Adichie’s meaning about Obama. I wonder if the interviewer ever looked back on this and saw it all differently.
I just made time to watch Dick Cavett's interview with James Baldwin. This should be required viewing in every US History class. Everything Baldwin discusses so eloquently is as relevant today as it was in 1969 (which I assume is why you suggested we watch). I don't know what it will take to awaken more white Americans, but thank you for doing what you're doing. For what it's worth, I'm trying to rouse those in my circles, and encouraging everyone I can to read anything Baldwin's written.
Ahhh those were good. Feeling all sort of feels, now. Happy Monday!
Happy Week! Sarah!
Marcie. Every week…EVERY WEEK I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU SHARE. I am still stuck on the week of indigenous peoples’ witness of residential schools.
Thank you, friend. There's so much that I still don't know about indigenous people but learning and listening has truly been a blessing for me. So glad you feel the same way.
Marcie, thank you for sharing these.
Shalom, friend. Thank you for your presence.
WOW! The last statement by the white interviewer with the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie when Chimamanda said of Obama: "they wanted him to be Jesus Christ" to which the interviewer replied "well he couldn't be" and she was inferring to his skin colour unless I read that wrong. I don't think she was inferring to the impossibility of anyone being like Jesus Christ. - she had been pretty literal in her questions. Hmm. That interview felt a bit like the "white washing" you tube video you posted last week- that one has really stuck in my head. Maybe the interviewer should have watched the Chrs Roc documentary on Blackness and the hair industry. It is so good!
Good observations and I think I agree with you about Adichie’s meaning about Obama. I wonder if the interviewer ever looked back on this and saw it all differently.
I just made time to watch Dick Cavett's interview with James Baldwin. This should be required viewing in every US History class. Everything Baldwin discusses so eloquently is as relevant today as it was in 1969 (which I assume is why you suggested we watch). I don't know what it will take to awaken more white Americans, but thank you for doing what you're doing. For what it's worth, I'm trying to rouse those in my circles, and encouraging everyone I can to read anything Baldwin's written.
Baldwin was so poised. I couldn’t get over how poised he was.
Agreed. Especially when he “debated” with that Yale professor in the other clip 🔥