Wow, I’m loving this way of looking at the world around us. We are often asked to disassociate ourselves from things or people to make it easier for us to accept what is being done to us. To accept this as some kind of progress, when really we have a lot more in common with those who come to share our community, than those who tell us we should turn against them instead. History as taught to us or read in books offers only one small viewpoint from which to look at the past. Even that which is handed down through family generations. I love how you gently weave the personal with the wider world and prompt us to take on that journey. I’ve typed and deleted and typed and deleted a lot here, but enough to know I have plenty to consider - both from your amazing daily August prompts and your questions. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you, Dawud - you also gave me some new ideas in your response to this piece. I am often coming at these topics after negotiating them in my life for almost twenty years. I like the perspective you bring about the way we disassociate from ourselves and distance from those need, as it helps me think of new ways I could tell these stories to others. And its so true - the lens we are taught at school is so narrow - sometimes I think - they must have updated that since I was at school but it is often not the case!
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Wow, I’m loving this way of looking at the world around us. We are often asked to disassociate ourselves from things or people to make it easier for us to accept what is being done to us. To accept this as some kind of progress, when really we have a lot more in common with those who come to share our community, than those who tell us we should turn against them instead. History as taught to us or read in books offers only one small viewpoint from which to look at the past. Even that which is handed down through family generations. I love how you gently weave the personal with the wider world and prompt us to take on that journey. I’ve typed and deleted and typed and deleted a lot here, but enough to know I have plenty to consider - both from your amazing daily August prompts and your questions. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you, Dawud - you also gave me some new ideas in your response to this piece. I am often coming at these topics after negotiating them in my life for almost twenty years. I like the perspective you bring about the way we disassociate from ourselves and distance from those need, as it helps me think of new ways I could tell these stories to others. And its so true - the lens we are taught at school is so narrow - sometimes I think - they must have updated that since I was at school but it is often not the case!