We Are Not Omelas - Less Attempted Theft of Joy, Please: Saturday Night OT & RIP

 

This illustration below Don Cheadle's picture is from a lecture I'm trying to attend that feels as if it is defying erasure, in an era where another piece tells us how important cultural & heritage preservation are in pursuit of the mission to keep a ruthless genocidal wanna-be autocrat (AND HIS CRONIES & BENEFICIARIES) from wiping an entire people off the map.

Yet these (including the choice of the statement from Dr. Bunch) remain *all part of the same conversation* :

Paraphrasing Senator Booker and other public figures either directly or tacitly questioning why Black women have to suffer in order to make history and progress for the entire country, where everyone benefits (because I clearly do not have my own speechwriting staff).

The “endurance” & “resilience” of Black women forced to endure public abuse with smiles needs to not be the “price of public advancement” any longer in this country or anywhere in this world (in case you missed it, the governments of European nations admitting White Ukrainian refugees are still denying that they have forcibly refused admission to African students and Black Ukrainian refugees even when they are caught on videotape doing it).

We are not Omelas.

Worldwide, COVID-19 Scientists Face Avalanche of Abuse – Science.Org

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Long Pause Explained Racism & Sexism in America – Elie Mystal in The Nation

Pause, Rewind, Play - Dealing with Racism in Sport: Serena, Venus, and the FIRST Episode at Indian Wells

(I had to amend the title because the piece was written before what happened to Naomi Osaka happened to Naomi Osaka)

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas – Ursula K LeGuin

LET US ACKNOWLEDGE THE TOLL ON HER & BLACK WOMEN EVERY DAY