Election issues and black lives

With our next meeting scheduled to be on Friday November 6, 2020 there is quite likely to be a lot of new material from November 3, 4, and 5 that will be on people's minds. I'm sure we will have some discussion about that or those things.

I did come across another article that I found interesting and suggest as supplemental reading material in case we tire Barbie discussion about current events.

This is a provocative article with a lot of material that is very interesting and relevant to the 1619 discussion. I do not know this writer, Saidiya Hartman, , but her Work seems to contribute a lot of ideas were the of discussion. Her latest book is “wayward lives. “

This article from the New Yorker magazine left me with three ideas that I found particularly interesting. There are many more ideas in the article, but these three hang in my mind.

has slavery ever really ended? The discrimination and exploitation that characterized it has continued through our society to the present day.
“Is this where you’re staying? A question that asks where someone lives without conveying any sense of permanency, ownership, or belonging.
Water has a memory. A river watch to return to where it used to flow. A writer has some of the same qualities in seeking out history’s and emotional memories

Join us for what has the potential to be a very lively and spirited discussion .

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