"Obama's election brought a black man into office, but does he bring black culture with him? How do we carry culture forward along with biological race - which is not even a scientific reality? How do we learn the lessons from our history of displacement, slavery, and colonization, and discover each other and all the cultural history that we carry?
"With the ecological situation we're in, it's ancestral knowledge that we especially need to connect with. Then we can access the secrets for taking care of the planet we're on."
~ Adrienne Maree Brown, in response to the issue of changing our national self-image
(Yes! Magazine, Spring 2010, Issue 53, p.19)
I posted this morning.
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Okay, that was supposed to be on the previous post, and, I was so excited that I actually did something I didn't stop to see this was from today.
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