Yesterday's prompt was to reflect poetically in haiku form over a book we're reading and I'm almost done with Chain of Ideas by Ibram X. Kendi. He continues to be one of the sharpest, most efficient scholars of our times, citing research like no other as he makes a case for international phenomenon (of where we are right now). The age of authoritarianism has been woven into the fabric of democracies from their beginning, and the reckoning is political ping pong which, well, is a stance of being pro-humanity, or being pro-the-power-of-a few. For me, it's about having the freedom to educate all youth about history and the stories that get told, but also are sidelined to benefit the narrator.
Kendi brings receipts. That is the scholarly brain. Online authorities bring opinions to protect the stories they've told themselves. They bring ignorance, privilege, half-baked ideologies, and conspiracies. Fascinating, actually. I'll be dead long before this age resolves itself for what it really tells about the human experiment. For now, I'm intrigued.
While Reading Kendi
b.r.crandall
ten links for our time
chaining ideas together
in a racist world:
flip the shit around
anti-anti-racism
make it about them
tell false histories
linked by self-preservation…
…ideologies…
rich men in board rooms
orchestrating bogus news,
claiming they’re oppressed.
international
reversal of narratives -
core to bigger plans.
human animals
trapped by vast oligarchies,
a powerful design.
modern KKK
with great replacement theory
(swastika tea parties)
maskless truck convoys,
vaccine discriminations
speeding their white lies
ideas pulverized,
insurrections go free.
such democracy.
is it biology?
these authoritarians
claiming such power
a need to resist
these sheep-wolf dictatorships
reclaiming freedom
finding integrity…
our humanity, linked with
togetherness - the we.
