+ This image evoked the power and loneliness of Black masculinity. One of the Black boys in my class said he FELT THIS more than any other moment.
We also talk about how this image is the ideal: above and alone and in the spotlight. But it’s not sustainable. +
We also talk about how this image is the ideal: above and alone and in the spotlight. But it’s not sustainable. +
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Black men make America/make America look good/make America great (again) +
Respectability politics trickles down through generations.
“But it doesn’t matter, because our kids disappear anyway. The same bodies that made the flag are laying on the ground dead. It didn’t matter.” +
Why was I in my school today and not posted up in Ms. Bond’s work-crib?!!!!
“Black women have an ornamental role here.”
“America is more concerned with keeping a false peace than justice.”
“If you want a revolution, don’t watch the Superbowl!”
“There is no winning the Game of America. It has to end.”
Retired from teaching means I really miss these moments of serendipity when the culture hands you so powerful a moment. (Not that I envy what it means to teach in such perilous times.)
“Lamar is creating art at the intersection of Black men being the world’s scariest boogie men and the world’s most profitable commodity. And I think he’s accepted that’s where he is.”
All quotes from The Youths™️
You are doing the work and these kids are so lucky to have you for their teacher. Thank you.
Secondly this break down is magnificent and articulated so well.
It exudes my Black is Beautiful but also the notion of knowledge is power.
In February.
But this here thread?! This might carry me AT LEAST through May (just in time for AP exams to wipe me out again 😂).
I’ll take it. 💯✊🏾📚
What an incredible educator you are. Those (insightful, brilliant) kids are so lucky to have you. ❤️❤️