“We’re going to kick things off with a story that was written out of the official history just weeks after it happened. It’s about the most ambitious covert operation in the Civil War. And, it’s about black people who never thought they’d pick up a gun - but they did.” - Chenjerai Kumanyika
“Just to put that in context, if you look at Tubman’s work on the Underground Railroad, most conservative estimates say that she helped to free roughly 75 people, over the course of ten years - but in the Combahee Raid, more than 700 in a single trip.” - Jack Hitt
“The success of the Combahee Raid was front page news in 1863, North and South. Heading up a river? Daringly making a strike behind enemy lines? A month later, Robert E. Lee tried the exact same tactic at Gettysburg - a daring dash behind enemy lines. And we all know how that worked out. Major movies have been made about Lee’s greatest disaster.” Jack Hitt
“But there’s never been a movie about the success of the Combahee Raid. In fact, I only heard of it because it was the name of a feminist collective in the 1960s who took their name from Harriet Tubman’s leadership in the raid. It’s not in any standard history textbooks. The only official recognition is a tiny bridge, down where the highway crosses the Combahee. It’s named after Harriet Tubman. But it took two years of political wrangling to get a small sign placed at the river.” - Chenjerai Kumanyika
In this episode of Uncivil, Chenjerai Kumanyika and Jack Hitt spoke with descendants of Shedrick Manego, Harriet Tubman, and Colonel James Montgomery to discuss the Raid on Combahee Ferry. With Harriet Tubman as the spymaster, once enslaved black people who had escaped returned to Confederate territory to emancipate others who were still enslaved on eight plantations. I was 29 years old before I learned about this raid through the Uncivil podcast. These are the stories that need to fill our textbooks. Did you learn about the Raid on Combahee Ferry in school?
#ChenjeraiKumanyika #JackHitt #uncivil #podcast #podcastrecommendation #podcastrec #TheRaid #ShedrickManego #PaShed #HarrietTubman ColonelJamesMontgomery #FallonGreene #BrodyJamesMontgomery #KimberlyCornish #JadeLee #JeffGrigg #Beaufort #SouthCarolina #CombaheeRiver #TheRaidonCombaheeFerry #TheCombaheeFerryRaid #CombaheeRiverRaid #spy #spymaster #slavery #history #CivilWar #learning #challengethenarrative #broadeningthenarrative
Account to Follow - Dec. 11, 2019
Account to Follow - Dec. 11, 2019
As you can see in Kara Bohonowicz’s IG profile, Kara is a writer. Kara uses her IG to post about the worth of people. Also in her profile, she acknowledges that the church is often a place where women and those in the LGBTQ community are hurt.
I am encouraged by Kara’s posts, and I enjoy reading her writing. On November 9th, Kara posted “social media friends are real friends,” and it was such a sweet reminder of the sacred online community I have found here with kind people such as Kara.
Follow @kbohonowicz if you aren’t already, and support her as she inspires and uplifts others.
#kbohonowicz #accounttofollow #karabohonowicz #womansworth #supportwomen #worth #dignity #encouragement #love #empathy #equality #reflection #action #loveyourneighbor #seekjustice #restorativejustice #lovemercy #walkhumbly #challengethenarrative #broadeningthenarrative
Additional Rec. - Dec. 12, 2019
Additional Rec. - Dec. 12, 2019
Additional Rec. - “An Egalitarian Review of Bible Translations”
In this blog article, which is a part of The Equality Workbook: Freedom in Christ from the Oppression of Patriarchy, seven questions are asked to analyze various translations of the Bible regarding gender and women in specific passages.
“Questions considered:
-Does the version use gendered (male) language, when the oldest available manuscripts do not? (Genesis 1:27, and 2:7)
-Does the version suggest that male authority is a divine mandate, or that women will ‘desire to control’ men? (Genesis 3:16)
-Does the version portray the leadership of women as inherently misleading? (Isaiah 3:12)
-Does the version introduce negative accusations against a female character in the Bible that are not found in the oldest available manuscript evidence? (Judges 19:2)
-Is the version inconsistent when describing ministry roles for men and women? (Romans 16:1-2)
-Does the version change the name of a female apostle to a man’s name, or does it call into question her apostolic ministry? (Romans 16:7)
-Does the version appear to presume that authority in the church or in the home must be ‘male’? (1 Timothy 2:12)”
-Does the version use gendered (male) language, when the oldest available manuscripts do not? (Genesis 1:27, and 2:7)
-Does the version suggest that male authority is a divine mandate, or that women will ‘desire to control’ men? (Genesis 3:16)
-Does the version portray the leadership of women as inherently misleading? (Isaiah 3:12)
-Does the version introduce negative accusations against a female character in the Bible that are not found in the oldest available manuscript evidence? (Judges 19:2)
-Is the version inconsistent when describing ministry roles for men and women? (Romans 16:1-2)
-Does the version change the name of a female apostle to a man’s name, or does it call into question her apostolic ministry? (Romans 16:7)
-Does the version appear to presume that authority in the church or in the home must be ‘male’? (1 Timothy 2:12)”
“Translations with a check mark appear free of androcentric, patriarchal and sexist language in those specific passages. They also appear to have a higher degree of accuracy when compared with the oldest available Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic manuscripts.”
“The least gender-accurate translation of both Old and New Testaments, scoring 0 for each category, is the English Standard Version (ESV).”
I am not trying to shame anyone who uses the ESV Bible translation. Though I no longer read the ESV, I did for many years. I wish I had known the information contained in this blog article, though I’m not sure it would have made a difference back then. I had internalized sexism and a host of other issues, so I doubt I would have cared if someone had sent this to me. I highly recommend exploring The Equality Workbook website and available resources there.
#additionalrecommendation #recommendation #AnEgalitarianReviewOfBibleTranslations #TheEqualityWorkbook #FreedomInChristFromTheOppressionOfPatriarchy #BobandHelgaEdwards #antisexist #antisexism #feminism #feminist #jesusfeminist #whitefeminismisnotfeminism #empathy #equality #reflection #action #loveyourneighbor #love #learning #justice #seekjustice #restorativejustice #lovemercy #walkhumbly #lament #repent #repair #tellthetruth #challengethenarrative #broadeningthenarrative
Book Rec. - Dec. 14, 2019
Book Rec. - Dec. 14, 2019
Current Read - Becoming by Michelle Obama
“I imagine that the administrators at Princeton didn't love the fact that students of color largely stuck together. The hope was that all of us would mingle in heterogeneous harmony, deepening the quality of student life across the board. It's a worthy goal. I understand that when it comes to campus diversity, the ideal would be to achieve something resembling what's often shown on college brochures-smiling students working and socializing in neat, ethnically blended groups. But even today, with white students continuing to outnumber students of color on college campuses, the burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students. In my experience, it's a lot to ask. At Princeton, I needed my black friends. We provided one another relief and support...Your world shifts, but you're asked to adjust and overcome, to play your music the same as everyone else. This is doable, of course - minority and underprivileged students rise to the challenge all the time - but it takes energy. It takes energy to be the only black person in a lecture hall or one of a few nonwhite people trying out for a play or joining an intramural team. It requires effort, an extra level of confidence, to speak in those settings and own your presence in the room. Which is why when my friends and I found one another at dinner each night, it was with some degree of relief. It's why we stayed a long time and laughed as much as we could” (Obama, 2018, pp.74-75).
“I'd never been one who'd choose to spend a Saturday at a political rally. The appeal of standing in an open gym or high school auditorium to hear lofty promises and platitudes never made much sense to me. Why I wondered, were all these people here? Why would they layer on extra socks and stand for hours in the cold? I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood. But politics? This was unlike anything I'd experienced before. It began dawning on me that we were the band. We were the team about to take the field. What I felt more than anything was a sudden sense of responsibility. We owed something to each one of these people. We were asking for an investment of their faith, and now we had to deliver on what they'd brought us, carrying that enthusiasm through twenty months and fifty states and right into the White House. I hadn't believed it was possible, but maybe now I did. This was the call-and-response of democracy, I realized, a contract forged person by person. You show up for us, and we'll show up for you. I had fifteen thousand more reasons to want Barack to win” (Obama, 2018, p.232).
“In general, I felt as if I couldn't win, that no amount of faith or hard work would push me past my detractors and their attempts to invalidate me. I was female, black, and strong, which to certain people, maintaining a certain mindset, translate only to ‘angry.’ It was another damaging cliché, one that's been forever used to sweep minority women to the perimeter of every room, an unconscious signal not to listen to what we've got to say” (Obama, 2018, p.265).
“You had only to look around at the faces in the room to know that despite their strengths these girls would need to work hard to be seen. There were girls in hijab, girls for whom English was a second language, girls whose skin made up every shade of brown. I knew they'd have to push back against the stereotypes that would get put on them, all the was they'd be defined before they'd had a chance to define themselves. They'd need to fight the invisibility that comes with being poor, female, and of color. They'd have to work to find their voices and not be diminished, to keep themselves from getting beaten down. They would have to work just to learn. But their faces were hopeful, and now so was I. For me it was a strange, quiet revelation: They were me, as I’d once been. And I was them, as they could be. The energy I felt thrumming in that school had nothing to do with obstacles. It was the power of nine hundred girls striving” (Obama, 2018, p.319).
In Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming, the book is arranged into three parts: “Becoming Me,” “Becoming Us”, “Becoming More.” I loved learning more about Michelle Obama’s childhood, relationship with Barack Obama, life as the First Lady of the United States, and her recent work. Michelle Obama’s beauty, grace, kindness, authenticity, and perseverance shone through the pages so clearly. Have you read this book?
#currentread #becoming #bookrecommendation #bookrec #michelleobama #memoir #becomingthebook #reading #beauty #grace #kindness #authenticity #perseverance #becomingme #becomingus #becomingmore #learning #antiracism #antiracist #endracism #endracismnow #feminism #feminist #whitefeminismisnotfeminism #womenarepeopletoo #endsexism #endmisogyny #endmisogynoir #enddiscrimination #broadeningthenarrative
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