Tag: ta-nehisi coates

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+ Alex Pretti, george takei, jimmie lee jackson, Julie Otsuka, Renee Good, ta-nehisi coates, they called us enemy, Viola Liuzzo

We Cannot Keep the Shades Pulled Down and Claim Ignorance at Atrocities Surrounding Us

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As a result of Executive Order 9066, the United States government abducted George Takei and his family, taking them to a concentration camp in Rohwer, Arkansas. They took a train to Arkansas, and during the trip, whenever they entered a town, the soldiers guarding them on board the train would tell them to shut shades so that no one outside the train, walking through the … Read More We Cannot Keep the Shades Pulled Down and Claim Ignorance at Atrocities Surrounding Us

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+ education, lillian e smith, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy, ta-nehisi coates

We Must Transform the World!

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In “The White Christian and His Conscience,” Lillian Smith breaks down the ways that religion, specifically Christianity, works to maintain power and how it causes individuals to lose their conscience, causing them to live, ostensibly, with the warring teachings of Jesus and the white supremacist society they exist within. Smith, also, presents readers with analogies between Southern white Christians and Nazi Germany, at one … Read More We Must Transform the World!

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