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Kamala Harris and Women Leaders around the World (part 1): Balanced Representation and Preferred Myths

10/22/2024

What will it mean if citizens of the United States of America, in November 2024, elect Kamala D. Harris as the first female president in the country’s history? What might it imply if they do not, and instead elect Donald Trump to the office for a non-consecutive second term?

For all the passionate proclamations declaring the U.S. as a leading defender of democracy around the world, the absence of a woman president in its 248 years of history poses a serious challenge to that claim. So does the systemic insistence on controlling women’s reproductive rights, gender pay gaps, and unsettling statistics documenting violence against women. The imbalance becomes even more glaring when comparing the U.S.’s omission to that of various countries branded as less developed or commanding, but which nevertheless have placed women in their highest seats of power.

THE UNEXPECTED EXAMPLE OF MEXICO

Think about the different points of criticism which the United States’ government has leveled against its neighbor, Mexico, over the course of two centuries: human rights violations, drug wars, and border/migration disputes. With such serious diplomatic grievances, it seems ironic that Mexico should have elected its first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, before the U.S. That, however, is exactly what happened when Ms. Sheinbaum, an environmental scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the office June 2, 2024. Commenting on her herstoric election, Sheinbaum pointed out:

“I didn’t get here on my own, we all got here together: our female heroes who created the nation, our female ancestors, our mothers, our daughters, and our granddaughters.”

The kind of decisive difference which President Sheinbaum emphasized solidarity among women made in her election, did not do the same, as many thought it might, when Hillary Clinton ran against Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency in 2016. According to post-election analysts at the Pew Research Center, some 47 percent of White women voters cast their ballots for Trump compared to 45 percent for Clinton. Is there any reason to believe Harris, a Black woman, would do any better with this powerful demographic? Possibly yes.

THE FEMININE FOCUS

Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe versus Wade in 2022, the idea of Americans electing a president who could relate more directly to the lives of women seemed less urgent, or necessary. Now, with subsequent bans, or restrictions, on women’s access to abortions in effect in almost half our politically polarized states, Harris’s gender, among women of diverse backgrounds, may serve as a greater advantage for her than it did for Clinton.

In addition, there are other concerns on which, generally, more women appear to dwell than men: 1) the gun violence which has been described as the leading cause of death among children in the U.S.; 2) the rising costs of starting and maintaining a family; and 3) what President Sheinbaum identified as “femicide”, or the murder of women and girls simply because they are women and girls.

In her August 22, 2024, acceptance speech before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Harris outlined how her intent to govern both aligns with and extends beyond what could be categorized as women’s concerns:

“In this election, many other fundamental freedoms are at stake. The freedom to live safe from gun violence––in our schools, communities, and places of worship. The freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. The freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis. And the freedom that unlocks all the others. The freedom to vote.”

Expanding further on leadership vision, she boldly asserted:

“I will make sure that: We lead the world into the future on space and Artificial Intelligence. That America—not China—wins The competition for the 21st century. And that we strengthen—not abdicate—our global leadership.”

TOWARDS A BALANCED REPRESENTATION

Declaring oneself a leader in any given context includes providing examples of preferred standards and practices. When we think about the U.S.’s designation as “leader of the free world,” we have to question why it is that not only Mexico, but many other populous nations across the globe (as seen in part 2 of this article) have already taken the historic step of electing a woman to head their government while the U.S. has insisted on dragging its collective feet in this area. After all, Hillary Clinton’s selection as the first woman major-party nominee for president in 2016 came close to a full century after American women were granted the right to vote in 1919-1920.

Why does any of this matter? Because a primary component of what we like to call modern democracy is a balanced representation of a country’s diverse populations. Such representation reduces the sense of being defined, or treated, “as marginalized,” dis-empowered, or oppressed. It increases the chances a person who sees their likeness reflected in a position of power is likely to develop their individual potential in a way that benefits themselves as well as their community. It is also significant because of the emphasis women may place on issues which male statesmen may be more likely to minimize or endlessly debate due to monetary costs of implementing them.

PREFERRED MYTHS AND DOCUMENTED REALITIES

This article began with two questions about possible implications regarding whomever Americans choose for their president in November 2024. When examining, in part 2, the list of countries where women have already served as presidents or prime ministers, one thing in particular becomes clear: Harris’s election would mean America is catching up with the global community when it comes to entrusting capable women with top leadership positions. It would also mean the ultimate glass ceiling has been shattered. In addition, it would put an end to speculations on how long it might take, following Barack H. Obama’s eight years in the Oval Office (2009-2017), before U.S. citizens elect a second African-American president.

In regard to the second question: the implications of Donald Trump winning a non-consecutive second term would be numerous and profound. His frequent denial of confirmed facts which most find self-evident––like climate change and devastations of the COVID-19 pandemic during his presidency––can only be described as either intentionally deceptive or unintentionally delusional. As such, electing him to the presidency for a second term would, in fact, present Americans and those watching around the world with yet more disturbing considerations.

Among those considerations: Why would Americans choose to invest with such power someone daily described on numerous diverse media platforms as a spreader of falsehoods, someone who is a convicted felon, who praises dictators while branding Americans opposed to his authoritarian leadership style as “enemies within,” and whose incitement of violence among January 6 election deniers landed scores of his “MAGA supporters” in prison?

Why, despite the hardcore verified reality of Mr. Trump’s legal and ethical transgressions, do millions insist on mythologizing him as a kind of messiah who suffers persecution on their behalf? Given the observations just noted, his infamous video-recorded statement that he believed being a celebrity entitled him to grab women by their genitals, and his installment of Supreme Court justices most likely to repeal such progressive social gains as women’s reproductive rights and colleges’ practice of affirmative action (which they have done), it is clear certain Americans prefer the mythological version of former President Trump to the real person.

The list of some of the countries which have already elected women presidents or prime ministers presented in part two of this article is arranged chronologically rather than by any kind of meritorious ranking. Some are well-known, but for those who do not regularly study or monitor such issues, some will be surprising. To check out the list and read concluding reflections on the 2024 race for the U.S. presidency, please click: Kamala Harris and Women Leaders around the World (part 2): 10 Countries ahead of the U.S.A. .

Aberjhani
Author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
Co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Creator of Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle

For more by Aberjhani, enjoy Reading for Free his Conversations with the World

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Confronting Complexities of Race and Policing in America (part 2 of 2)

2/20/2023

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Note: To read part 1 of this article please click here. Part 2 begins now:

U.S. President Joe Biden said in his official response to Tyre Nichols’ death: “It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black and Brown Americans experience every single day… Real and lasting change will only come if we take action to prevent tragedies like this from ever happening again…”
Few people will argue with that. But, clearly, the protests which follow such atrocities have not been sufficient enough to change a culture in which police and would-be vigilantes so often, so quickly, dismiss the validity of a Black person’s life. Neither has the U.S. Congress’ tepid response to them.

In an interview with Lawrence O’Donnell for MSNBC, Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cast, the Origins of Our Discontents, offered this comment:

“…The Tyre Nichols situation, tragedy, allows us to see that we have all been exposed to, we all have been programmed to see who is held at the very top of a hierarchy going back to the time of colonial America. And then who has been assigned at the very bottom…”

Like Wilkerson, a growing number of people consider “the idea of race” as nothing more than “an arbitrary construction.” Therefore: observable physical characteristics, cultural markers such as regional languages and dialects, and histories of nations and communities where the American experience is concerned: should be considered less relevant, or consequential, than many until now have believed.

A Different Kind of Black on Black Crime

In regard to Nichols’ death and the fact that all involved are categorized as Black: the dynamics of a hierarchical caste system based more on inherited or assigned privileges, power, and mindsets might imply that what is generally viewed as “race or racism” is not an issue. At least, not in the same way it was in such cases as those of: Floyd, Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, or Rodney King.

It would appear this might be described as a different kind of “Black on Black crime.” Generated by the dynamics of a caste system, it stemmed specifically from a forced encounter between those appointed to guard the interests of higher-ups and those considered residents of the lower end of an established hierarchy. It nevertheless has roots in the same toxic soil of ideologies based on “misconceptions” or “false conceptions” of race which has marred America’s democratic republic from its start and prompted some to convince themselves kidnapping Africans and forcing them to become slaves was good and just.

Psychological Disenfranchisement

There is no shortage of theories when it comes to why people of African descent have been subjected to the forms of brutal dehumanization which they have over the past four centuries. Similarly, reasons instances of suicide increased among African-American men during 2022 are numerous. They range from drug influences and economic desperation to gang-related violence and overwhelming depression stemming from race-related issues.

During all those centuries of the aforementioned dehumanizing treatment, endless floods of images and texts have been unleashed to convince Blacks and Whites of African Americans’ supposedly “inferior” nature. How can such a relentless bombardment of psychological disenfranchisement not have led many to question their own value?

One of the most insidious manifestations of racism is, after all, the self-hatred it sometimes breeds in people described as oppressed or disadvantaged. It expresses as mindless violence towards “their own,” and sometimes themselves. Viewing the actions of the five Black former policemen who took Tyre Nichols’ life through such a lens does not excuse the tragedy or make it any more acceptable. What it does do is give us that much more to consider as Americans from all backgrounds––no matter where they sit or stand or crawl along within a given system—as we continue the struggle to make our democratic republic a more humane unified nation.

Aberjhani
Co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Author of Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind

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Conversations with the World 111: Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves (pt. 2 of 2)

11/2/2022

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"Land of the Misinformed Dreamers" art by Aberjhani C2022.)

“…I believe that democracy is a political enactment of a spiritual idea. The sacred worth of all human beings, the notion that we all have within us, a spark of the divine, to participate in the shaping of our own destiny.”
––U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (maiden floor speech March 17, 2021)

The practice among some “leaders,” in recent years and months, of intentionally spreading disinformation to achieve political or military objectives has been all but normalized. The absence of ethicality in such a tactic is ignored. One example within the United States has become a constant source of material for late-night comics: it is the power which former U.S. president Donald Trump continues to wield over election deniers despite numerous documented reasons he should not.

[You can read part 1 of this conversation by clicking right here]

Late-night comics like Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, and Steve Colbert do a great job providing humorous relief from the stressful knowledge of very real threats represented by extremist followers of Mr. Trump. On the other hand, the televised findings of the January 6th Committee emphasize repeatedly how little there is to laugh about when examining in-depth evidence which suggests Trump played a more active role in the so-called attempted insurrection against the American government than most Americans wish to believe. Moreover, as evidenced by the recent attack on Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, the desire among election deniers to inflict physical violence upon Trump’s political opponents has not diminished.

Are the comedians and January 6 committee members directing their spoken truths more at Donald Trump’s personal powers of political persuasion? Or that of the American people’s collective ability to protect democratic values? Results from mid-term elections in the U.S., up to this point at the beginning of November, have been mixed enough to indicate many are listening but reaching different conclusions concerning what they hear.

Speaking Truth to Your Individual Power

Individual considerations concerning one’s own power, depending on the solitary soul in question, can result in a range of consequences. Some conclude that without substantial wealth, social influence, or political office: power is something they do not possess. As such, they avoid attempting to speak truth to those who clearly do wield some manner of authoritative might and readily follow questionable leaders without offering much input of their own. When George Benson and Whitney Houston sang their respective versions of Linda Creed’s and Michael Massers song, The Greatest, they may have summed up what many consider their only claim to notable strength: “No matter what they take from me/ they can’t take away my dignity.”

At the far opposite end are: those so convinced of their own capabilities they revel in notions of rulership and control which not only place them above all others, but above any governing laws or regulations. Most of us find ourselves somewhere in the middle of these two extremes––an absolute lack of power or the sole commander of it–– attempting to balance the implications of both. That means those who believe they do not possess any significant measures of power nevertheless encounter situations where they are required to exercise the same. And those who believe they are “all powerful” discover the pain of disillusionment revealing them to be as susceptible to defeats or disciplinary actions as anyone else.

When ordinary American citizens, however, found their lives upended by Infowars host Alex Jones prolonged promotion of the conspiracy theory claiming the 2012 Sandy Hooks massacre was a hoax, they were forced to fight back. Already dealing with the grief of losing loved ones to America’s epidemic of gun violence, reliving the agony in a court room battle against orchestrated guerrilla decontextualization was likely the last thing they ever anticipated. Their painful truth leveraged against the substantial power of Jones’ influence resulted in multiple verdicts, in Texas and Connecticut, totaling just over $1 billion.

Are there any who can afford to ignore their individual ability to make a difference for the better: in such days as when Earth’s mightiest rivers are drying up due to human-driven climate change? When war on different continents destroys entire communities on a daily basis? And when the powerful prey with impunity upon the vulnerabilities and ignorance of those weakened by hunger and despair? Speaking truth to your own power first requires acknowledgement that it exists. Then comes reflections on what it means to exercise it in specific ways––or fail to employ it at all––just when it is needed the most.

Aberjhani
Author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
Co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

CATCH UP ON MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WORLD

Conversations 111 Part 1: Speaking Truth to Power

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Why Genocide in Ukraine Matters to A Black Poet in America (Pt. 2 of 2)

4/7/2022

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Once underway, Russia’s “special military operation” immediately brought to mind all the most inhumane atrocities human beings have committed against other human beings. Mainstream media groaned about how nothing like it had been seen on the European continent since World War II. For me, the specific tools and strategy involved to carry out the slaughter were less significant than the intent to commit it.

(If you missed part 1 of this essay and wish to read it please click here.)

In how many forms over how many centuries have we seen the same barbaric inclination manifest with heartbreaking blood-drenched results? Ukrainians in particular will recall: there was once a neighboring country near the Black Sea called Circassia, but it no longer exists because Russia did to it (1830s-1870s) exactly what Russia is attempting to do to Ukraine at this historic 2022 moment.

They will remember in particular the Ukraine famine of 1932-1933 which ended the lives of almost 4 million people. They cannot forget the take-over of Crimea in 2014. When considering these things, it becomes easier to understand why they have opted overwhelmingly to die in battle rather than exist in a repressive autocracy proclaiming itself a democracy.

Some Useful Lessons

For humanity as a whole, it remains difficult to understand why we insist on duplicating the ignorance of the past instead of building upon whatever wisdom might be gleaned from it. If the enslavement of Africans and the eventual rejection of their chains had not been enough, then some kind of useful lessons should have been learned from: the Holocaust (1941-1945, approx. 11 million killed, including Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Romas, Gays, and others); the Cambodian “Killing Fields” Genocide (17 April 1975- January 1979, nearly 2 million killed); and the Rwandan Genocide (7 April to 15 July 1994, approx. 800,000 killed).

From 2 to 6 million is a number often cited when calculating Black lives lost during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison put the figure at 60 million. The number of Black lives lost during the process of capturing Africans combined with that of Blacks who died in slavery throughout the resulting diaspora may very well be incalculable. What is certain is the documented assumptions of members of one population deciding they possessed the right––some convinced themselves it was an obligation––to destroy the cultural integrity of another population.

‘A Large-scale and Treacherous War’

Whether Russia’s ceaseless bombing of Ukraine may be properly defined as genocide is something scholars and politicians might debate but which Ukrainians cannot. Virtually addressing Israeli lawmakers on March 20, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointed out:

“This is a large-scale and treacherous war aimed at destroying our people. Destroying our children, our families. Our state. Our cities. Our communities. Our culture. And everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainians. Everything that Russian troops are now destroying. Deliberately. In front of the whole world.”

For me, now a month and a half later, it has been too much like watching the proverbial oversized bully flanked by two Goliaths even larger than he taking turns punching a solitary 99-pound book-wormish classmate. Except the bully came armed with tanks, warplanes, and long-range missiles, and the bullies’ victim was not a solitary school boy.

The victim is a sovereign democratic nation which at the beginning of the war, on February 24, 2022, had a population estimated at 44.1 million. At this point, a quarter of Ukraine’s population has been displaced, including more than 4 million refugees fled to other countries. Videos of atrocities committed in Mariupol, Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin, and elsewhere have left the international community stunned with disbelief.

Injustice Anywhere

At least three times each year--when honoring his birth, acknowledging the pain of his assassination, and commemorating the 1963 March on Washington, DC––people across the globe invoke the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on nonviolence and human rights. One of his most memorable pronouncements states: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Dr. King’s words clearly do not end with considerations of the social, political, or cultural battles undertaken by Black Americans and which have placed them among the foremost defenders of justice and democracy in the United States. The concept is easily applicable to the now famous blue and yellow shades of Ukraine’s enduring flag.

In his historic appeal to the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022 , Ukraine President Zelenskyy cited King’s I Have a Dream speech and paraphrased his key refrain to emphasize:

“I can say, ‘I have a need: I need to protect our sky.’ I need your decision, your help, which means exactly the same, the same you feel when you hear the words ‘I have a dream.’”

Who, watching the reduction of Ukraine’s beautiful citizens and cities to piles of corpses and rubble, can doubt they are witnessing injustice in its most malevolent form? What could be more unjust than a sustained concentrated effort to erase an entire people’s culture, history, and presence from the earth? A day will come soon enough when onlookers denouncing the onslaught will have to decide whether efforts to help stem the rushing streams of blood have been meaningful in any significant life-saving way, or if they merely constituted an unintentional form of further enabling orchestrators of the butchery in Ukraine.

By Aberjhani
(© National Poetry Month 2022)
Author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
and Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind
Creator of Original Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle

For more from Aberjhani on War in Ukraine 2022 please check out:
            Why Genocide in Ukraine Matters to a Black Poet in America Part 1
            Holiday Letter for a Poet Gone to War Poem with Video
           Volodymyr Zelensky and the Angel of Peace 2022
Ukraine, Russia, and the Art of Being Human
Angel of War and the Year 2022
Voices of Poets on War and Peace

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The Difference Compassion Could Have Made in #2ManyLivesGone2Soon: My Elijah Rock-Shout

6/28/2020

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("My Elijah Rock-Shout" text art graphic by Aberjhani for Bright Skylark Literary Productions C2020)

Such an overwhelming pattern of lethal violence against African Americans at the hands of police unskilled in nonviolent conflict resolution has emerged over the past decade that I was less stunned by news of what happened to 23-year-old Elijah Jovan McClain in Denver, Colorado, last August 24, than I was by the words attributed to him as he was being detained and slowly robbed of his life. I have not been able to access a single video or recording on which everything Mr. McClain said can be heard clearly but according to the fact-checking website Snopes.com this is an accurate transcription:

“I can’t breathe. I have my ID right here. My name is Elijah McClain. That’s my house. I was just going home. I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me? I don’t even kill flies! I don’t eat meat! But I don’t judge people, I don’t judge people who do eat meat. Forgive me. All I was trying to do was become better. I will do it. I will do anything. Sacrifice my identity, I’ll do it. You all are phenomenal. You are beautiful and I love you. Try to forgive me. I’m a mood Gemini. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Ow, that really hurt. You are all very strong. Teamwork makes the dream work. Oh, I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to do that. I just can’t breathe correctly.”

These are not words to cry over and then forget. They were uttered as McClain (wearing earbuds and carrying a shopping bag) was stopped, forced to the ground with a carotid (choke) hold, injected with a chemical called Ketamine to make him more docile, and then transported to a hospital where he died a few days later.

“Try to Forgive Me”

There is a mixture of awe, admiration, and fear in the demeanor of people sharing McClain’s last utterances across the internet. They are amazed by the clarity of his spiritual intention to put the officers at ease although he is the one, at some 140 pounds, who is clearly outnumbered and overpowered. In short, he demonstrates compassion towards them while his freedom and life are being taken from him. He tells them, “You all are phenomenal. You are beautiful and I love you. Try to forgive me.”

Imagine if even half the compassion which Mr. McClain exercised towards the law enforcement officials in Denver had been shown by different police or citizens anxiously out to make arrests in the cases of: Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Botham Jean, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, my adolescent brother Robert Lee, and the numerous others who did not become subjects of intensified media scrutiny or campaigns calling for justice.

(McClain Family photo with quote by Elijah McClain)

Compassion might have led officer Timothy Loehmann to see Tamir Rice as a 12-year-old child instead of as a deadly threat and coaxed him to drop the toy gun he was holding before unloading actual gunfire on him. It might have decreased the toxic rush of “fear” Trooper Brian Encinia claimed he feared for his life when forcing an unarmed Sandra Bland out of her car reportedly for failing to signal a lane change. Whereas compassion might possibly have won him a new friend or admirer, his brutally aggressive treatment and arrest of Bland ended in what was ruled as a suicide by hanging in her jail cell.

Considering the Golden Rule: Who among us know of anyone who would wish to have done to them the gun violence so many, and the loved ones left behind, have experienced just this year alone?

Recent reforms in police training and procedures combined with legislation to support them provide reason to believe the kind of unjustified killings we have seen can and will end. Chances of that happening increase greatly with a mindful cultivation of compassion as an essential tool for addressing volatile situations within communities as a whole before life-threatening conflicts occur.

The Violinist and the Kittens

Only those closest to him can speak with any kind of authority about who or what Elijah McClain was but there are videos and public documentation which support claims he was an exceptionally sensitive and empathetic human being. Some might find the description of him as “an angel walking among people” a bit much. Speaking for himself he declared: “I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all.” That wasn’t exactly all because being a massage therapist did make him a kind of healer in the mode of an angel. In fact, his fateful encounter with police occurred after reportedly purchasing tea for a cousin.

And then there is this: he was so concerned about the loneliness from which he believed kittens in shelters might suffer that on his lunchbreaks he played the violin for them. That practice of musical compassion prompted world-class musicians to gather in Aurora on June 27, 2020 and play their hearts out as crowds peacefully chanted and called out #Justice4ElijahMcClain.

Read McClain’s final words again and note the degree to which he is holding himself accountable, not his uniformed assailants, for the transgression against him: “Oh, I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to do that. I just can’t breathe correctly.” And this amazing plea: “Forgive me. All I was trying to do was become better.” There are certain phrases or words we use––like beautiful soul, altruistic, sublime spirit, courageous, and saintly––to characterize someone who places above their own well-being that of people causing them harm. They are not phrases restricted to any single color, gender, nationality, or demographic classification. If anything, by their nature they confirm the presence of someone whose life example seemingly transcends sociological categorization.

The appropriate application of such words is determined by going beyond simply advocating for love- and compassion-based social change in our world to taking the radical dangerous step of embodying that change and living it. We know it is a radical and even, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., a “marvelously militant” thing to do because historically committing to it has cost a lot of beautiful souls their physical existence. We also know Elijah Jovan McClain had taken that sublimely revolutionary step and made the heroic commitment because even in the face of voracious death he did not refrain from proclaiming and living it.

Aberjhani
28 June, 2020
Harlem Renaissance Centennial
Savannah, GA

(Quote by Elijah McClain)

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Kamala Harris and Women Leaders around the World (part 1): Balanced Representation and Preferred Myths

THE UNEXPECTED EXAMPLE OF MEXICO

THE FEMININE FOCUS

TOWARDS A BALANCED REPRESENTATION

PREFERRED MYTHS AND DOCUMENTED REALITIES

For more by Aberjhani, enjoy Reading for Free his Conversations with the World

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Confronting Complexities of Race and Policing in America (part 2 of 2)

A Different Kind of Black on Black Crime

Psychological Disenfranchisement

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Conversations with the World 111: Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves (pt. 2 of 2)

Speaking Truth to Your Individual Power

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Why Genocide in Ukraine Matters to A Black Poet in America (Pt. 2 of 2)

Some Useful Lessons

‘A Large-scale and Treacherous War’

Injustice Anywhere

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Kamala Harris and Women Leaders around the World (part 1): Balanced Representation and Preferred Myths

THE UNEXPECTED EXAMPLE OF MEXICO

THE FEMININE FOCUS

TOWARDS A BALANCED REPRESENTATION

PREFERRED MYTHS AND DOCUMENTED REALITIES

For more by Aberjhani, enjoy Reading for Free his Conversations with the World

To contact Author-Artist Aberjhani, please use this form. To comment on the above article, please use the next section.

Confronting Complexities of Race and Policing in America (part 2 of 2)

A Different Kind of Black on Black Crime ​

Psychological Disenfranchisement

Contact Author-Artist Aberjhani at Bright Skylark Literary Productions

Conversations with the World 111: Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves (pt. 2 of 2)

Speaking Truth to Your Individual Power

Contact Author-Artist Aberjhani at Bright Skylark Literary Productions

Why Genocide in Ukraine Matters to A Black Poet in America (Pt. 2 of 2)

Some Useful Lessons

‘A Large-scale and Treacherous War’

Injustice Anywhere

Contact Aberjhani at Bright Skylark Literary Productions

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“Try to Forgive Me”

The Violinist and the Kittens

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