Living in the United States is such a dysregulating experience. My nervous system is in shambles.
Raven Schwam-Curtis
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And y’all wonder why this generation of kids struggles with high rates of anxiety
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We can’t move forward because we can’t fix what we won’t face. So MAGA is sending a very clear message: they simply don’t care to face or fix this.
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MAGA argues that all this discussion of racism and slavery is dividing us and thus needs to stop. You know what’s really dividing us? Refusing to reckon with our storied past and how it proliferates into the present moment. What’s dividing us is the failure to engage in genuine repair.
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What you refuse to reckon with will reckon with you
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“yOu LiBs ArE oBsEsSeD wItH tAlKiNg AbOuT rAcE!” Are we obsessed with race or are we insistent on naming the harm caused by people who uphold racist systems? Stop the problem and we won’t have anything to talk about. See how simple that was?
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Call me crazy, but if you’re more offended by slavery being taught in museums than the tragedy of slavery happening in the first place then maybe…just maybe…you’re the problem.
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Or that enslavers threw African people overboard en masse during their transatlantic voyage for insurance money (look up the Zong Massacre). So we’re talking about a regime that wants to sanitize an already sanitized national understanding of enslavement.
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The most wild thing to me about this claim from the White House that the Smithsonian museums are "too woke” is that we already get a super tempered history of slavery in this country. We’re rarely taught that enslavers used to literally eat us.
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Cracker Barrel unveiled a new logo without the old white man. MAGA called it a “woke rebrand.” Within a day, the backlash forced the company to restore the original logo. Nothing like a challenge to the status quo to bring out unfettered white backlash and fragility.