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Why do we glorify the American Revolution & Bastille Day but villainize Black Revolutions?
We glorify the American Independence and the French Revolution, but black people’s revolutions throughout history to this day are vilified. Bastille Day is still celebrated today, when people stormed a government building because it was a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power and for unjustly imprisoning people without cause. Sound familiar at all? There… Continue reading
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Systemic Racism is not “in the past”
The “I don’t see color” rhetoric was never about seeing beyond color – it was about denying their experiences, hiding it, making it invisible so that the public would not rise up against racial injustices, so that they would not know of it. The “I don’t see color” rhetoric was a political tactic in the… Continue reading
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“The Phantom,” Excerpt II
As a kid, you believe in fairy tales and stories and imagination and live in a world that is beyond the real. They try everything they can to hide reality away from you. They lie to you. Oh, such elaborate lies. And then – then you’re supposed to grow up and face reality. But when… Continue reading
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DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time: Faux Diversity at the Expense of the Story
Ava DuVernay, I love you. But please stick to making documentaries like The 13th, because this adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time was utterly absurd and undeniably one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Don’t get me wrong, because I am a huge fan of you. I integrate your film The 13th in every… Continue reading
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Continuum of Destruction: Review of Ervin Staub’s “Roots of Evil” (Ch 1&2)
Yet again this is one of my many attempts to comprehend the nature of hate and social aggression. Just two chapters in and I am already blown away by how much Staub’s every precise word is saturated with insight into the psychological inclinations in conflict, on an individual and societal scale.It is a manifestation of… Continue reading
About Me
Contemplations in sociology, literature, theology, science, physics, sci-fi.
Educator at CUNY: English Literature, Writing, Sociology. NYC Bengali Muslim.
My academic work examines inequality & hierarchical constructions of modernity, time, capitalism, and technology – particularly in how they inform educational institutions and cultural knowledges.
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