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Juneteenth
Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth;[2] also known as Freedom Day,[3]Jubilee Day,[4] and Liberation Day[5]) is a Texas state holiday celebrated annually on the 19th of June in the United States to commemorate Union army general Gordon Granger announcing federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, proclaiming that all slaves in Texas were now free.[6] Although the Emancipation Proclamation had … Continue reading
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Indigenous and Black Collaboration
Many of you know of my years of wonderful connection with the Kheprw Institute (KI), a Black youth mentoring and empowerment community in Indianapolis. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/?s=kheprw Of course much of what I learned there was far from wonderful. I witnessed so … Continue reading
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Institution-Building Critical To True Change
I am very glad to see the two articles discussed below. I’ve known the authors, Diop Adisa and his father, Imhotep, for seven or eight years. As Diop writes below, he, his father, mother, Miss Fair and Alvin Sangsuwangul have … Continue reading
Concepts of race, property and value
I found this video by Sonya Renee Taylor to be very thought provoking. “When capital is more valuable than black bodies, capital must be disrupted.” I continue to be uplifted by the masses of people going to the streets to … Continue reading
Two national Quaker organizations on racism
Racism and Whiteness Our hearts are broken as the fault lines of racism continue to be starkly exposed in the violence that ended the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and uncounted numbers of African Americans, not only … Continue reading
Racism and Policing
It is amazing to see thousands of people who have gathered together, marched together to demand the end to structural racism and White superiority that leads to the violence against, the killing of people of color by police. Diverse crowds … Continue reading
Sorrow
I’m feeling a deep sadness this morning. And uncertain about what to do about it. This is one of the times I’m perhaps writing mainly for myself. I don’t believe we can make any progress on justice issues until we … Continue reading
Posted in Black Lives, enslavement, Kheprw Institute, Quaker, race, Uncategorized
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Moral Reckonings
As Krista Tippett says below, “it feels important to me, in a moment like this, to look below the radar of rupture — to see models and practices that work, and that in fact can take up the huge hard … Continue reading
Of so little value
Like a faucetDrip, drip, drip.Lives of all our relations,Death, death, death. Jeff Kisling, 4/30/2020 The sun shining on the trees is so beautiful this morning. I had to try to capture it before the sun moved on. Before I came … Continue reading
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Unist’ot’en Healing Centre
The Unist’ot’en Healing Centre is described below. As important as it is in its own right, the Healing Centre is now the focus of attention regarding the approval of the Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (excerpts)Tues, January 21, … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 