by Rupe | Apr 10, 2015 | Mad Musings
It isn’t true that you have to get over it. It isn’t even true that you have to want to. No one else can understand what you have lost. No one else can bear the burden of your tribute to a love, to a life, to an identity now gone. What a privilege it is to feel deeply.
Something happens when you entwine your fate with someone else’s. If they go somewhere you cannot follow, part of you goes with them, and it is like birthing a baby who comes out of you: still and limp.
You are helpless as you watch the labor of your deepest love, your most sacred creation disappear under the dirt without you.
You want to hold it in your arms and join it in a sleep that never ends. You want to claw at the boundary of the earth between the two of you with your fingernails, but someone grabs you and pulls you away, and all you can do is wail.
You become hollow. You are missing a chunk of yourself, and no one can really see it once you put on your creamy lipstick and your designer dress, and you pluck your eyebrows and paint your fingernails and toenails to match. No. No one can see what you are missing; you look so well put together…Continue reading…
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My Comments:
I have been a long time reader of this blog and find it to be well above average. Very engaging and thoughtful stuff.
by Rupe | Nov 22, 2014 | Mad Musings, what the...?
As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States’ commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage around the world. The uncomfortable international spotlight on such domestic problems should not be surprising. American racial inequality regularly dominated foreign news coverage during the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. policymakers were eventually forced to respond, in part to protect America’s image abroad. Read more on Foreign Affairs
My thoughts:
I am not sure if this is a defining moment in our history, but it certainly points to the fact that we have a far way yet to go in fixing us. This means that we, as a country, must be careful with motes.
by Rupe | Nov 9, 2014 | Mad Musings, what the...?
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
My thoughts:
This is a seminal piece of writing by one of the most refreshing and bright young black thinker/writer around today. This is certainly a must read for all peoples of conscience (notice I did not say only black folks). It will or should cause us all to think about the vicious damage that the hateful scourge of racism, in its myriad forms, has caused and continue to cause in the black experience in America. The conversation must be started, this certainly is an opening.
by Rupe | Oct 7, 2014 | Mad Musings
How do expectations, particularly teacher expectations, affect students in the U.S.? Are standards high enough? Does Common Core, which has been adapted by some states, set the bar too high?
These are all questions that Center for American Progress senior fellow Ulrich Boser has tried to unpack in an issue brief (pdf), and there is a simple answer: Students do better when more is expected of them…Continue Reading
Thoughts: Teachers have a hard job – yeah, got it. That being said, however, I will never give over my kids education to the anyone. Racism still runs rampant in our society and a fair amount of racists in our classrooms.
by Rupe | Dec 27, 2013 | Mad Musings
I often wonder if I were to lie on my deathbed, lips cracked and dry, breath wilted, body broken, torn and tattered, what thoughts may drift through my fatigue.
Will I surrender into my happiest memories, my dearest moments? Think of tender wet lips and sweet touch? Will I dream of the exquisite sensation and flavor of a hot mint chocolate mocha gliding down my throat, melting and warming from the inside out? Read more at Rebelle Society
by Rupe | Oct 19, 2013 | Health-Wellness-Sex, Mad Musings
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Cancer.org reports that each year “more than 296,000 American women face breast cancer,” and its website offers a wealth of information regarding reconstructive surgery. And with those surgeries come scars.
There are other options, too. Some women choose to forego reconstructive surgery altogether, adorning their chests with inked art instead.
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