"Where is it? What does it feel like where you are? What do you see and hear and smell around you? How is it different than what came before? What might these circumstances call for?"

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"I love 'Which Side Are You On?' for the way the clarity of its question and the necessity of an answer only gestures to the depths it demands. The song can’t take us all the way there—we’ll have to go looking for ourselves. I believe in that song because it’s physical, because it asks you where you are. Not in theory; your actual body."

~ Jeff Sharlet

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slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/ot…

Other People's Houses

A London diary, pt. 2

^{Jeff Sharlet (Scenes from a Slow Civil War)}

"In this way, religion became not consolation but reinforcement—a moral alibi for ownership.

For the enslaved, faith meant something different. Their Christianity inverted his: it promised that the last would be first, that masters would answer for every lash."

So at Jackson's funeral, the enslaved people surrounding him sang "One day your head must bow as low as ours" — "scripture in their own language, a theology of resistance."

#BlackHistory #solidarity #resistance #religion
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I highly recommend Dr. Elisabeth Glassco's site 400 Years. It focuses on Black history, Black resistance and solidarity, with an eye to contemporary events that call for resistance including political ones.

Her essay yesterday about Andrew Jackson and other founders of the American Republic is first-rate.

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400years.substack.com/p/one-da…

“One Day Your Head Must Bow as Low as Ours"

Their days ordered his fortune; their silence framed his legend. What remains is the record beneath the record—the lives whose endurance exposes the power that built the early republic

^{Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (400 Years)}