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@CarleePalomaki [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : To me “woke”—as in, to be woke—means naming and dismantling what the essential @ToniMorrison described as “The Master Narrative.”
Here’s an exchange that Morrison had with Bill Moyers, which I excepted in my book #DearAmerica.
#Woke [URL redacted]
#IRLJournalistBillMoyers
Supplementary #IRLAuthorToniMorrison: "the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing" (p.7). #1975_ keynote address at #EDUUSPortlandStateUniversity [pdf] #OtheringDiscriminationRacism
Supplementary #IRLAuthorToniMorrison: "the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing" (p.7). #1975_ keynote address at #EDUUSPortlandStateUniversity [pdf] #OtheringDiscriminationRacism
"Morrison: She surrendered completely to the so-called master narrative.
Moyers: To?
Morrison: The master narrative, I mean, the whole notion of what is ugliness, what is worthlessness, what is contempt. She got it from her family, she got it from school, she got it from the movies, she got it everywhere.
Moyers: The master narrative. What is that's life?
Morrison: No, it's white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction. History. It has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that's the master narrative speaking. 'This is beautiful, this is lovely, and you're not it.' She is so needful, so completely needful, has so little, needs so much, she becomes the perfect victim."
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@MariLigocki [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Parents are heard! @GlennYoungkin @GOP #progressives #Virginia #VirginiaElection #VirginiaElection2021 #VirginiaGovernor #Republicans #conservatives #QAnonCult #victory #education #Elections2021 #woke #racism #GOPDomesticTerrorists [URL redacted]
#IRLAuthorToniMorrison / #1987_Beloved + #PowerControlChattelSlavery versus #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence
Context https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/beloved-toni-morrison-virginia.html And https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/26/politics/virginia-toni-morrison-beloved-mcauliffe-youngkin/index.html And https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/02/reading-beloved-high-school-glenn-youngkin-virginia-election/ And https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/toni-morrison
Context https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/beloved-toni-morrison-virginia.html And https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/26/politics/virginia-toni-morrison-beloved-mcauliffe-youngkin/index.html And https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/02/reading-beloved-high-school-glenn-youngkin-virginia-election/ And https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/toni-morrison
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