I personally find this article incredibly hopeful and being hopeful makes me happy. So, I hope it makes you happy, too. If the content is too overtly political and offends you, please let me know so I can avoid such posts in the future. My point with this is not to spread my own politics, but to spread hope for everyone in our world!
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
And, happy Juneteeth!
Happy Juneteenth!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this article! I am taking time today to reflect on where we've been, where we are, and where we are going. Hopeful is an understatement ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏾
Greetings are to Dr. Leslie Donovan,
ReplyDeleteI resonated with this statement in the article:
Ezra Klein
:I saw some people fighting on the street the other night and I thought to myself, I should call someone to make sure this doesn’t get out of hand. And then I realized I didn’t want to call the police because it was these two homeless guys and I didn’t want them arrested. But if there was somebody I could call for something going wrong who I knew was just a mediator — someone unbelievably skilled at these escalating situations — I would feel much more comfortable making that call.
And I don’t see a reason we couldn’t create that. People are talking about defunding or abolishing the police, but there’s also the question of what would you create? And I think we need some institutions that are as central to how the government thinks of itself as police are, but are not built upon a skill that involves violence."
Sincerely,
April Vihilidal