24 August 2020

elisi: (Vote Saxon by diapadme)
First an article from just a couple of days ago:

Vox: The kindness is the point
The DNC’s best argument in the time of coronavirus: Joe Biden, unlike Donald Trump, is a decent man.

This sort of ties with something I've been meaning to post for a while. Thanks to a now-forgotten recommendation I listened to one of Ezra Klein's podcasts, 'Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful'. (Follow link & scroll down.) Can't remember exactly when it's from and I can't find a date, but I'd say... June?

It's all chewy & interesting, but this is the part that really struck me so I transcribed it (bit long, so put it under a cut):

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And this seemed like a suitable art work for this post:

Revisiting The Work Of Sonya Clark: Unraveling The Confederate Flag (x). The work is from 2016 and you can read about it here.

Sonya Clark