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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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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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