This is why a New Deal for CUNY is important, now more than ever.
https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/9691-racialized-austerity-case-of-cuny-funding-new-york-public-college
This is why a New Deal for CUNY is important, now more than ever.
https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/9691-racialized-austerity-case-of-cuny-funding-new-york-public-college
Darity Jr, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. UNC Press Books, 2020.
This was not an easy book for me to read as a white person. The brutality of slavery, and it’s follow up, which is best described as American Apartheid, requires swallowing some difficult truths. I believe that a debt is owed. We need radical change in order to create a just and equitable society. Please read this book.
I got distracted from the projects of last week, because a library hold arrived.
Darity Jr, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. UNC Press Books, 2020.
They got my attention in the acknowledgements:
“To our sons — members of the fifth generation born since slavery was outlawed — and to our ancestors we have identified who were born enslaved and lived to see emancipation.”
This is one of the most profound statements of the profound damage that American Apartheid has done to all of us. I cannot even begin to imagine what it means to be a person of color. It is time for true change. I recommend this book with all my heart.
(Thank you to NYPL.)
