When i marie marriage to my colleagues late this morning when i return. The immediate tree ump of the night were to nicolas Scottish National list, a clone sweep. Their successes included a 20yearold candidate unseating labors National Campaign manager. Its been one of the most crucial votes for decades and the most closely fault. It could decide the future britain, in europe. The con servetives have promised an inout referendum on renegotiated membership terms. Some newspapers were quick to celebrate the conservative success and others werent so sure. The the antiimmigration u. K. Party is expected to get two seats. But he, himself may fail to get elected, prompting a leadership contest. Its been a night of surprises and shocks, and demands for another referendum on Scottish Independence. Outside the houses parliament for us, and, what happened when people got into the voting booth this didnt go the way the polls were telling us. You know, if you said something to me, that this was th
Americans support for anticolonialism in africa during the early cold war. She looks at the politics of south africa and the role of the naacp. Her book is bourgeois radicals the naacp and the struggle for colonial liberation, 1941 to 1960. The Wilson Center and the National History center cohosted this 80 minute event. A few years ago, my brother sent me a youtube clip from the macarthur Award Winning author c hamamanda adichie. She explains as a young girl has used to write these stories about girls who are blind eating apples in the snow, and then there were more blondes, and more. And her mother said, child, do you know youre in nigeria . And she said well yes, but all of the book that she read had blondes eating apples and playing in the snow. Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message is that there are these stories that we hear over and over and ov
Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message is that there are these stories that we hear over and over and over again. We hear them so much, that they go by without interrogation. Without question. And they begin to frame our worldview. They begin to frame the way we see the world. So for instance, she says, africa is poor. Immigrants are mexicans. And legal. The poor and illegal. The poor do not work. When you begin to interrogate those stories, you had a very different understanding of how the world works. I also grew up with the same story. It was the story told over and over again. About what authentic black leadership looked like. What is said, how it said it and it was of course, militants. Defiant. And it had swagger. And of course, it wore leather. But like adichie, i grew up. But somehow those stories did not. This is erased from major history tex
She explains as a young girl has used to write these stories about girls who are blind eating apples in the snow, and then there were more blondes, and more. And her mother said, child, do you know youre in nigeria . And she said well yes, but all of the book that she read had blondes eating apples and playing in the snow. Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message is that there are these stories that we hear over and over and over again. We hear them so much, that they go by without interrogation. Without question. And they begin to frame our worldview. They begin to frame the way we see the world. So for instance, she says, africa is poor. Immigrants are mexicans. And legal. The poor and illegal. The poor do not work. When you begin to interrogate those stories, you had a very different understanding of how the world works. I also grew up with the same
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