On the one hand, that game sucked. On the other, they’re 3-1, it’s week 4, and they’ve split with the patriots nearly every year for like 6 years. Not that worried.
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![Fascinating piece…
“[Kamala] Harris recalls the walls of her day care center as decorated with posters of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman. The nursery's matriarch made pound cake and flaky biscuits, and played Aretha Franklin's rendition of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black." She recalls being sent on Sundays to the 23rd Avenue Church of God, where Harris and her sister, Maya, sang in the children's choir. They were reared in a social justice Christianity, which called upon them, according to Harris, to "defend the rights of the poor and needy." This does not strike me as the biography of someone who needs lectures on the nexus between the black freedom struggle and its import to the broader world. To the contrary, it reads like the story of someone steeped in that knowledge.
And that story forces a very basic question: What was the point of all this? Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer? And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors? And if they did not, if they believed that the "poor and needy" meant those within the empire as well as those without, then what moral mandate does that place upon their children?
And if their children have come only to praise, not check, empire, then why have they come at all?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sgqlb2os5537waze4wjtfprl/bafkreiczion7lsebfksxew6hkidgucs7pyn3jvx7h3pol6b4o5hb3zaadu)
