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I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also; I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—And I say there is in fact no evil, Or if there is, I say it is just as important to you, to the land, or to me, as anything else.
Poems by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman and William Michael Rossetti
Some of us see the lack of policy change and wonder if the movement itself was futile. But __policy change is an end point, not an origin. The cradle of material change is in our imagination and ideas.__ And whereas white supremacy, like any other status quo, can default to the clichéd claims and excuses for the world as it is—bad cops are rotten apples, America is guardian of the free world—we have the burden of crafting new language and stories that allow people to imagine that new policies are possible.
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The built-in etiquette of kinship statuses, the dominance and subordination of domestic life, the reciprocity and cooperation, here make the “economic” a modality of the intimate.
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
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