I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.
Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're p… - Emily Raboteau
Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're p…
- Emily Raboteau
I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance. - Emily Raboteau
I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.
Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice … - Emily Raboteau
Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice …
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it… - Emily Raboteau
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it…
It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy. - Emily Raboteau
It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.
Here is a pragmatic and idealistic suggestion, White America! When you see my kids on the playground, on the street, can you remember to smile at the… - Emily Raboteau
Here is a pragmatic and idealistic suggestion, White America! When you see my kids on the playground, on the street, can you remember to smile at the…
Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social instit… - Emily Raboteau
Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social instit…
I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international strugg… - Emily Raboteau
I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international strugg…
I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and … - Emily Raboteau
I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and …
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