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Dirt and Memory Attending a Healing Ceremony with Mississippi2

This past weekend, I held a vial of Mississippi red clay from the site where Bootjack and Red were lynched in 1937.
Memory matters. Truth-telling is a form of justice.
Read about the healing ceremony I attended:
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No Kings NOLA · Indivisible # No Kings NOLA ### On June 14th (Flag Day)— Trump is throwing himself a military parade for his 79th Birthday, with our tax dollars. As tanks roll down Constitution Avenue in the capitol, there wil...

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I saw #Sinners today and would love to design a college history elective around this movie!

A conspiracy theory is emerging that Harriet Tubman was a myth & that the Underground Railroad was a literal underground tunnel. 🤦‍♀️

This is what happens when we erase, dilute, or politicize U.S. history. We leave space for nonsense to grow, which ultimately leads to oppression & division. #harriet

I’m solo camping at the moment. As I sit around my campfire drinking wine, I want to reach out to my favorite authors. Anyone else do really nerdy things under the influence of nature & wine?

Blind Spots: Growing up White in Mississippi Reflections from a Childhood Friendship

Researching what it was like growing up in Mississippi—and sometimes that means catching up with an old friend, poolside, over wine. 🏊🏽‍♀️🍷

We met in 2nd grade (sharing chickenpox 💀), and decades later, we’re unpacking memories of our shared history—what we saw, what we didn’t see.

#MSinBlackandWhite

“As a society, we pay a price for our silence. Unchallenged personal, cultural, & institutional racism results in the loss of human potential, lower productivity, & a rising tide of fear & violence in our society.”
Beverly Daniel Tatum, _Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria_

#ChatGPT has really changed my meal planning game. I joined River Queen Greens CSA program & pick up my vegetable haul every Tue. Then I update ChatGPT on what was in my order, remind them of what proteins, pantry staples, etc I have & ask for some meal ideas. Can't emphasize enough GAME CHANGER!

“The greatest threat to public confidence in elections is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands eligible voters.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2014)

It’s wild that the REAL ID Act was passed in 2005; twenty years ago & is just now going into effect. Think about what this means for the SAVE Act? Will it take 20 years voters to reregister to vote? Or will some folks be grandfathered in like Jim Crow days?

If someone that has power to manipulate the stock market tells you to “buy now” is that insider trading?

“I’m so tired of being a five year old.” -my darling wines

On recommendation of @imaniperry.bsky.social, I’m reading _The Barn_ by Wright Thompson. I’m 50% in & it is so well done! It’s the history, told by a local, of the community & families that were & are connected to the Emmett Till & the barn where his murder took place. #MSinBlackandWhite

We have yet to receive adequate information from Homeland Security about the recent news of Minnesota students being detained by ICE.

Snatching up students who come here legally to work hard and get an education does not make you tough on immigration.

We need answers.

Black and White capitalized When writing about race...

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The outsiders and liberals at whom so many rural Whites point their anger are not the ones who have held them back--and as long as they keep believing that they are, rural people won't be able to find their way to an effective form of politics." Schaller & Waldman in _White Rural Rage_

"But Hollywood didn't kill the family farm and send manufacturing jobs overseas. College professors didn't pour mountains of opioids into rural communities. Immigrants didn't shutter rural hospitals and let rural infrastructure decay...

I started a Substack to journal my dissertation process—writing about the Black & White experience of growing up in post-Civil Rights Mississippi.

No idea where this will go, but if you're interested come be my first subscriber.

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After a year of writing & background research, I emailed each committee member a draft of my prospectus today at 4:00pm. Now I will be refreshing my email every 5 minutes until someone says something, anything. 🤓😬🫣😶
#MSinBlackandWhite

Ted Bundy was also a psych major.

I understand folks are planning to do an economy opt out day on Feb 28, but I’m just going to do my best to opt out for the unknown foreseeable future as much as I can.

The bus boycotts were 13 months, not 1 day.

Powerful conversation today for my project on the Black and White experience of growing up in Mississippi during the post-Civil Rights Era.

“It's all bigger than one person, right? Bigger than you and me. It's us.” -T.B.
#MSinBlackandWhite

"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." -William Faulkner

#MSinBlackandWhite

Kendrick Lamar’s half time performance reminded me a lot of Childish Gambino’s “This is America” video. Both were incredibly cerebral & should be studied for the political art.

The Plane/Helicopter crash won't be the last time we learn how devastating it can be when Qualified people are replaced with Loyalists

*puts The Shock Doctrine on my library hold lists*

Hey it looks like Taylor Swift is
coming to the Super Bowl again.

Hope she’s not offended that the New Orleans has done all these city improvements for one night when she packed the dome 3 nights when she was here.

Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

Anti-Trump protests sweep the globe on inauguration day – in pictures People worldwide take to the streets after Donald Trump was sworn in as US president on Monday

Did you know there were GLOBAL protests happening against Trump’s presidency?

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