At my brotherās urging, I just caught Between the World and Me. Not a comfortable show, but very important. And once more, points out that as a white man, I will never understand the Black experience. Just not possible. Love you, weep with you, but not even pretending to understand what it means to you, or to be you. Damnā¦
So, this isnāt a matter of literal life and limb, but it still speaks volumes about the degree to which Black voices and people (and especially women) are innately disrespected, stereotyped, and diminished by white society.
If you can stand to listen to more than the first sentence of this piece, youāre a stronger person than I. I couldnāt get any farther than āIām a southern Black womanā.
This shit is audio blackface, and itās absolutely stupefying that multiple people were involved in recruiting, recording, editing, and distributing it without a single one of them going āwait, is this maybe a little racist?ā
I think that shows how many white people were dominating that process to begin with.
Umā¦ why not also hire a Black narrator?
Isnāt that kind of a no brainer?
Youād think that would beā¦ but given that the very first line is āIām a southern black womanā¦ā why hire a white dude specifically?
Covid is usually less severe in young people. This does not help the ones who get severely ill or die. 99.6% mild to asymptomatic means 0.4% severely ill kids. When the numerator is as huge as the US, thatās a hell of a big number.
One step forwardā¦
The past is never dead. Itās not even past ā Faulkner
The local NPR station is doing a story on this later today, so Iāll try to remember to post that once itās on the siteā¦
