Interview: Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Deborah Kalb / by Rachel Griffiths

Full Link: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2020/07/q-with-rachel-eliza-griffiths.html

“We’re at the beginning of a vision that will take some time to manifest or to qualify in any comprehensive way. It can’t happen by the force of one group and it can’t surrender to the use of force, or brutalization, of any kind.

This is a beginning, but it is not the beginning. It’s part of a larger formation and resistance that came before us and will go on to whatever future freedom we are willing to fight for. Justice can’t exist in isolation and oppression. This is true for Freedom as well.

We’re standing on the shoulders of those whose believed and acted, according to their beliefs, in a world where Black Lives would be wholly free, where black people would not have to argue about our dignity or our basic humanity.

There are so many spaces where “protest” is happening at every level. It’s important to concentrate on the myriad of ways, macro and micro, at which Black Lives have been, and are, always-ever at stake so that other races can have their identities. It’s sad and enraging that this has been the requirement for much of human civilization.” – Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Source: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2020...