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April 6 - August 25, 2024
how it is possible to take in the music without much concern for salvation, but still be carried off to a place that feels holy.
It is not difficult to manipulate the imaginations of men, with so many of us doing half the work ourselves before anyone else arrives with intentions of manipulation in mind.
Crash won all of the awards that mattered and I watched it in a room of people who all cried but then nothing in the world changed.
It isn’t that America loves films like these because they think the films themselves will fix racism. It seems, instead, that there is a love for these films because they make Americans believe that racism being fixed is something that can happen with a journey through some idyllic half-retelling of history. That it is a matter of proximity, or the shared need to solve some problem on the periphery of racism. Movies like these never approach the simplest and most honest idea: that racism is about power, and the solving of it relies—in part—on people being willing to give up power. But that
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Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you have been. It is one of the many parts in the overwhelming collage of American Freedom that Americans are told was fought for and won.
A shot fired can unleash a country’s desire for violence, or a fist thrown can incite a riot. All of us are just hanging on the edge of someone else’s lust for power. That
The newest thing that cloaks me in fear is the idea that I’ve become too numb to a world that increasingly demands furious engagement.
That a great deal of us have seen too much or heard too much or lived through too much to wrestle our innocence back from whatever cynicism or heartbreak has grown in its place.
