I’ve got a solution for the Bird Flu! First, give the chickens ivermectin. Then, have them practice Earthing. The issue is, their immune systems aren’t getting enough soil contact. Oh, and we should also give them coffee enemas. And lastly, let’s stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back, and most importantly, they’ll be straight!

Ibram X. Kendi to Adapt ‘How to Raise an Antiracist’ and Six Other Books for the Screen via Maroon Visions Banner (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #IbramXKendi #MaroonVisions

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/ibram-x-kendi-how-to-raise-an-antiracist-documentary-1236067837/

I just glanced at X / #Twitter for the first time in a while. Saw a perfectly reasonable post by #IbramXKendi explaining how attacks on #DEI echo the segregationist #JimCrow playbook of 50-60 years ago -- and a bunch of insane responses by bigoted Trumpers and racists. Why the eff does anyone like Kendi stay on that hellhole?

A person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing #IbramXKendi’s conception…No organization (in media, higher ed, industry, etc) can expect all…to adhere to a single view on how to combat racism: Pamela Paul on where Kendi went wrong. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opinion/ibram-x-kendi-racism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How to Raise an #Antiracist
by #IbramXKendi
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/363179-how-to-raise-an-antiracist
#parenting #racism #kids

Read Ibram X. Kendi's chapter on Progress in The 1619 Project book to open your eyes to examples of this strategy to dismiss current systemic racism.

It's opened my eyes a little to something I was missing before.

#IbramXKendi
#The1619Project #SystemicRacism
1/4

I have a lot of baggage regarding my relationship to my #Mennonite upbringing, but knowing that the first #antiracist #antislavery pamphlet written on Turtle Island by whites was by Mennonites is not one of them. I applaud #IbramXKendi for helping me become aware of #history that I never learned in school. Stamped From the Beginning is a phenomenal history and #antiracist education manual. @bookstadon

I have a lot of baggage regarding my relationship to my #Mennonite upbringing, but knowing that the first #antiracist #antislavery pamphlet written on Turtle by whites was by Mennonites is not one of them. I applaud #IbramXKendi for helping me become aware of #history that I never learned in school. Stamped From the Beginning is a phenomenal history and #antiracist education manual. @bookstadon

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
Curious to know which books and/or organizations shaped your #SocialJustice and #RacialEquity lens

Looking at this book list from https://antiraciststarterpack.com/

The first book I read on #RaceConscious perspectives was #RaceMatters from #CornelWest

I typically recommend #HowToBeAnAntiRacist by #IbramXKendi to folks who are new to learning about #antiracism and #WeDoThisTilWeFreeUs by #MariameKaba for folks who are learning about #CommunityOrganizing with an #abolitionist lens

The orgs I recommend following to learn the basics around social justice issues are #MovementForBlackLives #M4BL #NDNCollective #ShowingUpForRacialJustice #SURJ #CriticalResistance and so many others

Pasty White Guy Schools American History

Slavery, racism, the Tulsa Massacre, the Wilmington coup d'etat, MLK's economic justice campaign (socialism, wealth redistribution), Lee Atwater's "n---r, n---r, n---r" explanation of GOP political, economic, and social policy, and more history you likely do not know.

(Oh, and it's just the tip.)

I like to think of myself as, if not fully woke, at least somewhat aware. And I didn't learn (much) new from this video. But by and large it covers events I've learned of only in the past 3--8 years or so.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hsxukOPEdgg

Another excellent resource is James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, addressing not just slavery and racism but Columbus, native Americans (ok; more racism), inequality, government overreach (a force for both good and evil), what Helen Keller used her rediscovered voice for (hint: see MLK above), and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me

https://www.worldcat.org/title/lies-my-teacher-told-me/oclc/733766164

You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right? N---a with a library card.

-- Brother Mouzone, The Wire s. 2 e. 10.

Get out there and read and learn, motherfuckers. Then act for change.

On the Media: Black Swans

The One News Programme I Can Stand[tm] covers Coronavirus (and is ... alarmed), prediction, and race.

Excellent as always.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-black-swans
(Transcript in a few days.)

Audio: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm022820_cms997580_pod.mp3