Courage and love
No Name in the Street is difficult, but essential reading. Eddie Glaude, Jr. reminds us The Lie wasn't born on January 6. It's the culmination of over 400 years of a nation pretending holiness while witholding recognition of black and brown folks' humanity.
Montgomery was, and the US is, "wretched because no one . . . had the force of courage or the love to attempt to correct the manners or redeem the souls of those . . . desperate [white] men, . . . imagining that they were holding back a flood."
I must act with courage and love.
BEAUTIFUL. And bonus points for the amazing photo-in-a-photo. I'm enjoying my immersion (SERIOUS immersion) in African folklore and literature these days... but it is going to feel very good indeed to cycle back around to African American writers afterwards and see the big picture in new ways. I'm finally getting educated! :-)
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