Dimensionally Barrett

One hundred years ago today, the community of Greenwood, popularly known as Black Wall Street, was murderously razed to the ground. An economically successful Black area of Tulsa was, for all intents and purposes – because there was intent and purpose behind this massacre – erased. We know how it happened. We know why it happened; although, that it happened it all is a damning indictment of race relations in this country. Why it happened has roots that go back to the founding of this country, in the erroneous, false, and fraudulent belief that humans can own other humans. More specifically, that white people can own Black people. Grammatically, I suppose I should capitalize “white”, but the very concept of doing so would mean to equate the oppressor with the oppressed; and in this historical instance, the murderer with the murdered. That the Tulsa Massacre was paved over and shunted down American history’s memory hole should surprise no one. That the covering up was so successful fo...

  For this update, I want to telescope out and look at what is happening among our policy makers and legislators in the U.S. in response to the National Unity Government (NUG)’s search for recognition and establishment among international bodies. At the same time, there’s a question of who is doing what exactly to support the Burmese people and the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). These are not two unrelated elements. And last, I’m offering merchandise to support the International Campaign for the Rohingya. Recognize the NUG “[D]emocratic countries should expressly stand with the people of Myanmar in their struggle for democracy” - Scholars for Myanmar Open Letter The first issue that comes to mind is the NUG’s reluctance to include Rohingya representation as part of its structure. In an exchange earlier this month, Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s permanent representative to the United Nations did not commit to this inclusion before the US House of Representatives Committee on Fore...

  Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries This post is dedicated to the people of India, to my friends there who are dear to my heart, and their families for whom I pray all will be well. I’ve been struck dumb by the resurgence of COVID-19 in India. My friends and their families are at risk, to say nothing of the enormous amount of suffering that affects everyone in the sub-continent and potentially, if not immediately, India’s neighbors. The implications are vast. As the United Nations and the World Health Organization sound the alarm that aid needs to be sent to India to distribute and deploy vaccines more vigorously and thoroughly, it becomes strikingly obvious that the coronavirus does not recognize borders and has little use for political or religious festivals. Oh. Wait. No, it has a lot of use for those events. What happened? Whether it was Trump’s United States or Modi’s India , I find this question smacks of the disingenuous. Failures in both ...