These kinds of transformations seldom have a long tail. They usually appear pyrrhic until they suddenly prevail. We may have far less time than we think to imagine what will replace white supremacy as our unifying mythology. And People sharing a space without a shared definition of “us” rarely share that space politely.
We’re on our way to Austin. Closed on our Chicago area home last Friday. Sticking around the area this week to tie up loose ends. It’s been a wild, tumultuous process that’s left little room to sit and think, much less write. Might still be a couple more weeks before …
As in some backwater Islamic Caliphate, mass artistic content in the US had to pass the wary eye America’s religious mullahs until just a few years ago and Republicans loved it.
We have relative progress on racial equity because that progress benefits powerful people. Recognize this pattern of interests and it can become a lever toward real progress.
Over the past few weeks I’ve stepped back from posting to hash through this question at length. The research has been fascinating and surprising.
By any reasonable estimate we will be a smaller country on Inauguration Day 2021 than we were on Election Day 2020.
Our white supremacists, who are our Nazis, will not live peacefully under a government dominated by a diverse, urban majority.
