Hi Anne - Thanks for that thoughtful reply. I've thought about a lot it this afternoon. My eyes were opened after reading Angela Davis's work on women, race and class, and the historical complexities of those relationships that in many ways stay with us still. We live in a cataclysmic time, I think, and how this reckoning will end I have…
Hi Anne - Thanks for that thoughtful reply. I've thought about a lot it this afternoon. My eyes were opened after reading Angela Davis's work on women, race and class, and the historical complexities of those relationships that in many ways stay with us still. We live in a cataclysmic time, I think, and how this reckoning will end I have no idea. But the segue from racial reckoning to identity politics to who can be labeled oppressed and who the transgressor blinds us all in many ways. And it does little to change hearts and minds and build much needed alliances. Rhyd is spot on in this article when he maintains that it is a distraction from what is really going on.
Hi Anne - Thanks for that thoughtful reply. I've thought about a lot it this afternoon. My eyes were opened after reading Angela Davis's work on women, race and class, and the historical complexities of those relationships that in many ways stay with us still. We live in a cataclysmic time, I think, and how this reckoning will end I have no idea. But the segue from racial reckoning to identity politics to who can be labeled oppressed and who the transgressor blinds us all in many ways. And it does little to change hearts and minds and build much needed alliances. Rhyd is spot on in this article when he maintains that it is a distraction from what is really going on.