I guess we’re library posting tonight 😅

“[R]acism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new. It can only reproduce the environment that supports its own health: fear, denial, and an atmosphere in which its victims have lost the will to fight.”
—Toni Morrison

We’re living in a time of radically drastic change and disruption, but it is not entirely without precedent.

Looking back to the lessons of history and literature, here are a few philosophers, historians, and activists whose books define the current moment we are living in: tinyurl.com/5n7kkhyb

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I feel the same way about James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me.”

You definitely should read that after this, if you haven’t already.

“That republic may be called fortunate if it produces a man so prudent that he gives it laws organized in such a fashion that it can live safely under them without needing to reform them.”
—Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book 1, Ch. 2