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Who the cap fit, let them wear it…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *KO, OC, KG* The Warm-Up: “Until the philosophy which hold one race Superior and another / Inferior / Is finally / And permanently / Discredited / And abandoned / Everywhere is war / Me say war… / That until there are no longer / First-class and second-class citizens of any nation / Until the color of a man’s skin / Is of no more significance than the color of his eyes / Me say war… / That until the basic human rights / Are equally guaranteed to all / Without regard to race / Dis a war… / That until that day / The dream of lasting peace / World citizenship / Rule of international morality / Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued / But never attained / Now everywhere is war…” ~Bob Marley & The Wailers, War (1976) The Core: “Start rewarding inconsistency with unavailability.” ~Anonymous “What I learned on my own I still remember.” ~Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Many talk. A few do. And even fewer keep doing.” ~Patrick Bet-David “Black people do not need to be excellent to be worthy of love.” ~Joel Leon “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ~James Baldwin “While it looks like things are out of control behind the scenes, there is a God who has not surrendered authority.” ~A.W. Tozer “PowerPoint hides bad thinking. Being busy hides unhappiness. Fancy websites hide bad writing. Vague language hides misunderstanding.” ~Shane Parrish “Save your explanations for those that are determined to understand you—give your silence to those that are determined to misunderstand you.” ~Steven Bartlett “2 types of young advice seekers—Ones who want help figuring out what to do with their life / career. Ones who know what they want to do and have a specific ask to help them figure out how to get there. Be the latter not the former.” ~Paul Enright “It is safer to be a white man who just killed multiple people than it is to be a Black person in a traffic stop and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about how abundant, unflinching and grounded racism is…I don’t know what to tell you.” ~Danez Smith “I’m praying for George Floyd’s family as the world awaits a verdict. His family would prefer to see him and hug him. That’s why justice is beyond verdicts. Justice is a continuum that includes dismantling systems that destroy and dehumanize human beings, then feign innocence.” ~Bernice King [4/20/21] “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” ~John Lennon “Someone recently told me that ‘difficult to work with’ often really means ‘difficult to take advantage of’ in creative industries, and I haven’t stopped thinking about that for weeks…Vocabulary like ‘arrogant’, ‘selfish’, ‘difficult’, ‘loud’, and ‘jealous’ often carry hidden strategies for perpetuating oppressive systems of society. These words are normalized but in reality, are extremely harmful for upholding toxic dynamics within relationships, friendships, family, schools and professional environments…” ~Sevdaliza “Justice requires accountability, but accountability alone must not be confused with justice. Derek Chauvin now faces accountability. George Floyd was denied justice the moment Chauvin’s knee took his last breath. Finding one officer guilty does not exonerate a legal system that has perpetually brutalized Black and Brown communities. Let this be a turning point for us to stop addressing our society’s challenges with over-policing and begin to build a new system of public safety that creates healthier and safer communities for all. Tonight, we hold the Floyd family in our thoughts. Tomorrow, with increased rigor, the work to achieve justice continues.” ~Ben & Jerry’s [4/20/21] Last Set: “It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important... So, while the law may not change the hearts of men, it does change the habits of men. And when you change the habits of men, pretty soon the attitudes and the hearts will be changed. And so, there is a need for strong legislation constantly to grapple with the problems we face.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. (@__nitch) Blog Post:
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