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It took us losing ourselves To see we require no kingdom But this kinship. It is the nightmare, never The dream, that shocks us awake.
In other words, Our scars are the brightest Parts of us.
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act blocked all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the US. It was the first federal law in the United States to differentiate between “legal” & “illegal” immigration. It was signed after generations of stereotyping Chinese immigrants as the carriers of cholera & smallpox.
The first step to scapegoating a whole people is to delegitimize their value—to call them a host to nothing but horror.
Ignorance isn’t bliss. Ignorance is to miss: to block ourselves from seeing sky.
The first step in warfare & pandemics is the same: Isolation, to rupture the channels of communication of virus/violence.
According to legend, There are two wolves inside us: One half that must be fought & one that must be fed. One that must fall & one that must never fail.
For it is in loss that we truly learn to love.
