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Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155

For The Wild

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Is There a Space in a Pyramid or a Prison Cell?

White allyship comes with a righteousness model or morality that is just as binding and incarcerating as the politics it wants to liberate black bodies from. So I wonder if there aren't other ethical spaces where we can spill into each other. That doesn't constitute spiritual bypass. And also doesn't perform some kind of milk toast reconciliation, but holds the tensions of these many worlds. The universe that exceeds all of them. This idea of brokenness is missing in our conversations. Because we're looking for wholeness, righteousness. In doing so we're becoming ironically brittle bodies, breakable. We can't even have a conversation about mistakes anymore as a result of the operations performed on us by

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