Revolutionary Black Grace: Finding Emotional Justice in Global Black Communities
Loss is an intimate part of global Blackness. Britain was an empire. America became a superpower. Africa had kingdoms. All global Black people lost something through systems of oppression where the language of whiteness ruled under brutal lash, stolen native tongues, and charred skin.
Unfortunately, the issue is that global Black people compare and judge our losses. We tell one another that our loss is way worse than yours. We reach into the wounds of historical untreated trauma, wrap our pain around our mother tongue, fashion an insult, and target it at a man or a woman or child who looks just like us, or a shade of us. We are prosecutors, presenting damning evidence of deficit, intending to diminish and destroy. Devastatingly, we succeed.
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By
Esther A. Armah, Nonprofit Quarterly
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Published
Feb 02, 2023
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Subject Area
- Intercultural/Interfaith/Interlingual; Immigrants, Refugees, and Other Newcomers
- Social Connectedness / Social Isolation
- Non-profit / Charitable sector
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Audience
- Service Providers (Non-profits, Community Organizations, Local government)
- Government (Politicians, Policy Makers) and Health Authorities
- Academics
- Funders
- Caregivers, Seniors & Volunteers
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