THOUGHTS FOR TODAY AND EVERY DAY: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it has been faced. History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.” ~ James Baldwin
Not everything faced can be changed, but nothing can change until it’s faced ~ the two ideas work together. Facing history honestly doesn’t guarantee you can fix everything. But looking away guarantees nothing changes at all. We are our history, not just we have a history ~ our institutions, assumptions, prejudices, and even our sense of who counts as “normal” were built by decisions made generations ago, and we’re still operating inside that architecture, often without noticing the walls. Pretending […]
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