Current Listen: The Road Back to You podcast - “Politics and Personality - An Interview with Michael Wear - Enneagram 4 (The Romantic) - Episode 10" (Released Aug. 31, 2016)
“They asked the same question [who would you not like to see your child marry] in 2014 or 2013, whenever they compiled the research, and the top answer was not religion, not race, it was, ‘I would not want my child to marry someone of a different political party.’” - Michael Wear
“I think the important thing is to not go to politics looking for your inner needs to be met.” - Michael Wear
“You need to have a firmer ground to stand upon when you’re engaging in politics than politics itself.” - Michael Wear
“We, especially those of us who are a part of this conversation, those of you listening in who are sensitive to these kinds of things, need to think about the spiritual harm that a politics of pure power does to people and the language of power and who has it and who does not.” - Michael Wear
Suzanne Stabile and Ian Cron interviewed Michael Wear in the episode of The Road Back to You podcast. Michael Wear directed faith outreach for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. The conversation was fascinating as Michael shared about politics and faith through the lens of an Enneagram 4.
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Account to Follow - Dec. 4, 2019
Account to Follow - Dec. 4, 2019
As you can see in the IG profile, Bible Belt Queers is a book, “a new anthology made by Bible Belt queers.” I first heard about this account through Kyle Medlin’s profile (@itskmeds).
The summary of Bible Belt Queers from the Etsy listing states, “Bible Belt Queers was created to empower LGBTQIA folx from the South to share their experiences surrounding growing up queer in the Bible Belt.” Bible Belt Queers was compiled and edited by Darci McFarland. On the Bible Belt Queers page, I’ve learned more about the contributors to the Bible Belt Queers book. I love reading pieces of the stories of the beautiful people who shared their hearts in this collection.
Follow @biblebeltqueers if you aren’t already, and support the work of those who contributed to the Bible Belt Queers book by purchasing a copy.
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Additional Rec. - Dec. 5, 2019
Additional Rec. - Dec. 5, 2019
Additional Rec. - “Six Freedoms Black People Do Not Have Under a White Supremacy” by Johnny Silvercloud
In this article, Johnny Silvercloud explicated six freedoms black people do not have.
“Here, after all of my studies and observations, I realize that there are Six freedoms - essential human rights - black people do not have:
- Freedom of Emotion
- Freedom of Space (Appearance)
- Freedom of Memory
- Freedom of Healing (Recovery)
- Freedom of Self-Defense
- The Freedom to Protect the Other Five”
“When black people don’t have Freedom of Emotion, we don’t have the freedom to express our pain. We don’t have freedom to express our most-justified anger.”
“This white entitlement to Black Space is evident in regards to how many black women (and black men!) speak on their experiences when it comes to white people reaching to touch their hair. Once again, this comes from a sense of sociological ownership; when Slavery ended white people never got detoxed from it.”
“Freedom of Space also affects Freedom of Appearance. Black people are simply not free to express themselves through clothing, hairstyles, or any form of physical decorations without harassment. All our lives we are told to not sag our pants for example, but infinitely wearing belts properly doesn’t ever save Black lives. Not having gold grills in our mouths, does not net us any respect to the point where white folks recognize our humanity (on equal terms).”
“Black people do not have Freedom of Memory. Ever noticed that, as a black person, you can never mention or reference oddly specific parts of American history without accusations of being 'stuck' in the past? Ever noticed that anyone else, especially white people, can mention or reference any part of American history without ever being accused of the same? Weird, right? The accusations of being 'stuck' in the past when mentioning or referencing Slavery, Jim Crow or any form of historical white supremacy is a form of memory policing.”
“This is what a lack of Freedom of Recovery looks like; one cannot make mistakes and change their lives around. Any mistake in life becomes permanent stains. And white people are not treated like this.”
“It has to be understood that in order to heal, the trauma inflicted has to be properly identified. One cannot expect healing of a wound when one pretends the wound doesn’t exist. Black people are charged with the task to pretend Slavery, Jim Crow, police crime immunity, the prison-industrial complex, and other institutional racist systems doesn’t exist, all while being affected by them. This ignorance exists to make white people comfortable.”
“This problem of never considering a Black person’s fear of being automatically murdered by police forces and other white supremacy-enabled miscreants is a great pathology within white America. This lack of consideration towards a Black person’s rational fear of being lynched is directly tied to a culturally sanctioned restriction of a Black person’s right to self-defense.”
"Looking at the first five Freedoms, we as Black People don’t have the freedom to protect, or fight for, any of the freedoms listed here. This is the Freedom to protect the other Five. This is overall freedom of protest. Freedom to fight. It’s another thing we aren’t allowed to do.”
Please read the full article hyperlinked above. To my black brothers and sisters, I am sorry for not doing enough to dismantle the lie of white supremacy in myself individually or in institutions. I trust you to tell me the truth about your life and existence and to hold me accountable. If you are white and are feeling guilty or defensive after reading this, let’s talk about it through DM or face-to-face, not in the comment section here. White people, let us lament, repent, and repair the damage around us to ensure all people experience freedom and flourishing. And as we dismantle this system of oppression, let us do so under the leadership of black women, for they have always fought for everyone else. Believe black women and fight for and with them as hard as they fight for others, because a better world for black women will mean a better world for all people.
#additionalrecommendation #recommendation #sixfreedomsblackpeopledonothave #freedom #freedoms #johnnysilvercloud #empathy #equality #reflection #action #believeblackwomen #loveyourneighbor #love #learning #justice #socialjustice #seekjustice #restorativejustice #lovemercy #walkhumbly #lament #repent #repair #tellthetruth #dismantlewhitesupremacy #endracism #antiracism #challengethenarrative #broadeningthenarrative
Book Rec. - Dec. 7, 2019
Book Rec. - Dec. 7, 2019
Past Read: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
"Somewhere in the midst of the notepads was a typed list of questions supplied by the WPA. Questions often reveal the desired answer. By the 1930s, most white Americans had been demanding for decades that they hear only a sanitized version of the past into which Lorenzo Ivy had been born. This might seem strange. In the middle of the nineteenth century, white Americans had gone to war with each other over the future of slavery in their country, and slavery had lost. Indeed, for a few years after 1865, many white northerners celebrated emancipation as one of their collective triumphs. Yet whites’ belief in the emancipation made permanent by the Thirteenth Amendment, much less in the race-neutral citizenship that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments had written into the Constitution, was never that deep" (Baptist, 2014, p.xvii).
"Here is something that is no accident: the most popular and creative genres of music in the history of the modern world emerged from the corners of the United States where enslavers’ power battered enslaved African Americans over and over again. In the place Reuben was being dragged to, and in all the places where forced migration’s effects were most dramatic and persistent, music could not prevent a whipping or feed a single hungry mouth. But it did serve the enslaved as another tongue, one that spoke what the first one often could not” (Baptist, 2014, p.160).
This book, which reads like a high school history textbook that all high school students should be required to read, is a disruption of the “sanitized version of the past” most people are taught in the United States. Using the heart, feet, heads, right hand, left hand, tongues, breath, seed, blood, backs, arms, and the corpse as chapter titles, Baptist wrote a gut-wrenching account of the truth of American slavery and the making of American capitalism as a result. On page 160, Baptist wrote about music, which made me think of Michelle Higgins of Truth’s Table referring to music as resistance to oppression, historically and currently, for black people. Join or continue in the fight under the leadership of black people to work toward the day when resisting oppression is not a reason that black people have to sing.
Have you read this book? I would love to hear your thoughts.
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