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A review by colleengeedrumm
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota by Sun Yung Shin
4.0
Everything changes and we can't get stuck in old ideas. Racism is an old idea. A tradition that harms children is not worth conserving or continuing.
My mother taught me to look people directly in the eye whenever I was alone and walking in public especially at night. Don't look away. Let them know that if they come after you, that you gonna fight them hard, and they will decide that you are not worth the trouble and leave you alone.
Incognegro
South Beach Night club in downtown Minneapolis
Maybe in America, race is the card I am always dealt.
And "the first black President" makes no sense to my brothers and sisters when you don't add "of America" to it.
Every small child's query: "Are we there yet?"
Before white, there was Irish, Catholic, Italian,...
Something about the story we are forgetting and the way in which our story, Indigenous stories, are the ground upon which all race crimes are committed. Because we do not know where we stand when we stand our ground.
Diversity meant white missionaries presenting slideshows of their work with people of color in so-called "heathen" countries.
May you live in interesting times. -Chinese proverb
I was born by the river, and just like that river, I been running ever since. It's been a long, long time coming, but I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will. - Sam Cooke song
If Prince were white, would he still be Purple?
America's real original sin was not slavery, but white supremacy.
With the support of both the federal government and churches, nearly five hundred new schools were created for the purpose of assimilating Native children by forbidding their languages and spirituality and forcing them to dress and act according to European values. Typically underfunded, the schools provided in adequate diets, and thousands of children suffered from malnutrition, disease, and even death.
My mother taught me to look people directly in the eye whenever I was alone and walking in public especially at night. Don't look away. Let them know that if they come after you, that you gonna fight them hard, and they will decide that you are not worth the trouble and leave you alone.
Incognegro
South Beach Night club in downtown Minneapolis
Maybe in America, race is the card I am always dealt.
And "the first black President" makes no sense to my brothers and sisters when you don't add "of America" to it.
Every small child's query: "Are we there yet?"
Before white, there was Irish, Catholic, Italian,...
Something about the story we are forgetting and the way in which our story, Indigenous stories, are the ground upon which all race crimes are committed. Because we do not know where we stand when we stand our ground.
Diversity meant white missionaries presenting slideshows of their work with people of color in so-called "heathen" countries.
May you live in interesting times. -Chinese proverb
I was born by the river, and just like that river, I been running ever since. It's been a long, long time coming, but I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will. - Sam Cooke song
If Prince were white, would he still be Purple?
America's real original sin was not slavery, but white supremacy.
With the support of both the federal government and churches, nearly five hundred new schools were created for the purpose of assimilating Native children by forbidding their languages and spirituality and forcing them to dress and act according to European values. Typically underfunded, the schools provided in adequate diets, and thousands of children suffered from malnutrition, disease, and even death.