The bloodshot eyes detail carries so much weight in this narrative. That small visual of shared rage between enslaved people says more about resistence than pages could. The framing here inverts the entire supremacy concept by showing what actual strength looks like, not the manufactured version built on fear. Dunno if enough people understand how deliberate that mythology was. Read something similar about how slaveholders needed the lie to justify the system to themselves as much as anyone else.
My heart breaks for people today who are treated as ‘less than’ by ignorant racists. Since there is no gene for race, only people who don’t care about anyone but themselves think the color of your skin is what they use to justify their bigotry. They are the inferior people, they are the ones who need to grow up, to get to know other cultures and traditions.
Thank you for this. An excellent read for MLK Day.
Thanks, Ellen. And thanks for catching a couple of boo-boos.
The bloodshot eyes detail carries so much weight in this narrative. That small visual of shared rage between enslaved people says more about resistence than pages could. The framing here inverts the entire supremacy concept by showing what actual strength looks like, not the manufactured version built on fear. Dunno if enough people understand how deliberate that mythology was. Read something similar about how slaveholders needed the lie to justify the system to themselves as much as anyone else.
Thanks for the comment. That's a pretty good summary of what I was trying to say. :-)
My heart breaks for people today who are treated as ‘less than’ by ignorant racists. Since there is no gene for race, only people who don’t care about anyone but themselves think the color of your skin is what they use to justify their bigotry. They are the inferior people, they are the ones who need to grow up, to get to know other cultures and traditions.
They need to get out more and see the world.