Reposted by Cyndia Blue
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Cyndia Blue
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Reader/writer/scholar/feminist/mom♥️folklore/myth Fighting fascism since 2016. #Resist “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”H. Heine “Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.”J. Simien
![“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yhwyp5hu4xna5vvz5b6ahtya/bafkreidhwmc45clgwdqwiwpskesg66k6yzufwt2dtn5mbdvqnjd2omcmjm)
