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“…we avoid labels and try to bury our emotions.”
But now, more than three years after our first kiss and more than a year after our first time, I’m still not over the possibility of him, the possibility of us. And he has no idea. I’m told my generation will be remembered for our callous commitments and rudimentary romances. We hook up. We sext.…
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The View From Here
We’ve had some days of really lovely (in my opinion at least) fog around here this week. This is the Museum of Science and Industry from the south end as W and I were exploring one of the meadows.
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“…we will be sitting on a powder keg all summer.”
James Baldwin’s report on the “occupied territory” of Harlem in 1966 came to mind tonight as I read the reports from Baltimore. The children, having seen the spectacular defeat of their fathers—having seen what happens to any bad nigger and, still more, what happens to the good ones—cannot listen to their fathers and certainly will…
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Authority or Power?
Ta-Nehisi Coates helpfully differentiates between power and authority. African Americans, for most of our history, have lived under the power of the criminal-justice system, not its authority. The dominant feature in the relationship between African Americans and their country is plunder, and plunder has made police authority an impossibility, and police power a necessity. The…
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