Tonight: Lentil Niçoise Salad
Redlining, Segregation, Property, and Freedom
A Short History of Housing Segregation in America
This is important.
I have not really talked much about this, but I have a long term project I’ve been working on about the connection between property/land ownership and freedom in America. Many of our governmental and societal ills can be traced to the fact that, from the very start of this country until relatively recently, property ownership was a requirement for voting.
This is more than (just) about race. If you think, “Hey, I own a home, I’m good.” and you have a mortgage, then you don’t really own your home. The bank does.
Call It What It Is: Anti-Blackness. – The New York Times
Anti-blackness describes the inability to recognize black humanity.
Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – YouTube
This is important.
Few things make me sadder than how much we as humans short change our capacities.
All that we have the capacity to create, we have the capacity to change.
If we built it, we can tear it down. If we tear it down, we can build anew.
Third Precinct in Mpls. served as ‘playground’ for renegade cops – StarTribune.com
Part of understanding what sparked this whole mess is understanding the culture in the precinct the cops worked out of.
Also, costing the city taxpayers a stupid lot of money.
Yellow bell shaped flowers
Bloom from round button buds
In clusters held on stems above
Random Phone Use Reduction Tip:
Treat it like a landline of old. Leave it plugged in on an end table, kitchen counter, or buffet. Turn the ringer on and only engage with it when someone calls or texts and do so no further than the cord can reach. Unplug only when leaving home.
Support a Black Owned business from my hometown of NOLA making beautiful masks from African sourced Shoe Shoe fabric. Doing a Kickstarter for buy one/give one