The hardest thing for me after reading A People's History wasn't learning the truth. It was living with it. Waking every day breathing in the air of a system designed to suffocate me. Same with El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He kept stretching his lens, even when it cost him. Happy birthday indeed.
i feel this. realizing that the system is designed against us and then having to, in a twisted way, be okay with? while also trying our damnedest to find joy where possible? yeah that's a heavy blow every time it hits. but we push on.
The hardest thing for me after reading A People's History wasn't learning the truth. It was living with it. Waking every day breathing in the air of a system designed to suffocate me. Same with El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He kept stretching his lens, even when it cost him. Happy birthday indeed.
i feel this. realizing that the system is designed against us and then having to, in a twisted way, be okay with? while also trying our damnedest to find joy where possible? yeah that's a heavy blow every time it hits. but we push on.