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If you think liberals and conservatives live in different worlds (they do), or the rich and poor do (of course they do), consider how different the universe is for blacks and whites. Take the following story, which, if you’re white, I’ll bet is new to you:
thousands of protesters are laying on the Burnside Bridge with their hands behind their back in Portland.
No nation should demand this kind of courage from its people. No nation should extract such sacrifice to survive.
I HAVE to speak up today. This is not a day for me to be silent. We need more than police reform in this nation. We need a radical revolution of values, a redistribution of wealth, deconstruction of unjust systems, new and more humane ideas, the creation of the Beloved Community.
airing tonight on @worldchannel at 7:30 EST: a new @PoetryInAmerica episode about Whitman, who I think would be distressed at how little progress we've made in the past century and a half.
interviewees include Elena Kagan, Nas, Tony Kushner, and (somehow) yours truly! https://twitter.com/PoetryInAmerica/status/1266467789444911108
Twitter feed video.
In this clip from “Whitman,” @Nas reads & talks about Whitman's encounter w/ the runaway slave, one of the most vivid & unforgettable moments of compassion in Leaves of Grass” See the full episode tomorrow on @worldchannel 7:30pm ET
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