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Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, ignorance did. Be curious, not stupid.
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Depression and Oppression
I was meditating on the black and white photo of my mother as an infant that hangs in my living room. It has been a cultural landmark in every place in which I have lived or worked since I first had it blown up and framed in 1981, alongside a similarly iconic photo of my… Continue Reading →
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Happy Equal Pay Day!
Happy equal pay day, y’all – (math is required) March 26th is the day that female worker’s wages earned to date in this year can be added to all the wages they earned last year to match male worker’s wages last year. Sit with that for a moment. Then do some math with me. It’s… Continue Reading →
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Capture the Child & Control the Kingdom:The History of Orphanhood – Part 1
One of the worst things we have done in moving from roving bands of tribal people to becoming “civilized nations” was our intentional step-by-step destruction of the integrated corpus of community and family. We created the concept of “orphan” – a child who belongs nowhere and to nobody simply because a biological parent died. We… Continue Reading →
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Is all of America about to become Bunce Island? Maybe.
Can humanity learn from its past? Are we doomed to repeat our mistakes? Can we evolve? I have seen through the eyes of my Melungeon ancestors that the distance between oppressor and the oppressed is about three generations. I see this phenomenon repeated in the cycle of human history. Descended from royalty, from the enslaved,… Continue Reading →
Melody Curtiss
Standing Up is Difficult. Getting Back Up is Necessary.
