January 2010
3 posts
haiti
lazz:
obviously the further a person is from having met hir basic needs of survival, the further s/he is from understanding that kind of despair. the people in the US whose first priority is Security in Haiti—the US military, those obsessive about ‘looting’—do not seem to identify with the people who sleep beside the rubble of their homes at night, or with the people who have been starving and...
Remembering Martin Luther King « The Edge of the... →
lazz:
bonesarecoralmade:
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” That’s wonderful writing. But also: that’s not the MLK my son learned about in kindergarten last week or the MLK my students learn about in their textbooks. By contrast, the MLK who spoke in Grosse Pointe laid the blame for urban insurrections at the feet of complacent whites:
And what is it that America has failed to hear?...
