a poem by Clint Smith
"when people say 'we have made it through worse before'
all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who..."
I hit the character limit, but you can listen to Smith himself recite the rest of the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmX_i4LAV5U
Cuando la historia que parece ajena revela la propia
"El legado de la esclavitud" de Clint Smith me conectó con historias olvidadas y desatendidas sobre el pasado esclavista, no solo en EE. UU., sino también en América Latina y la diáspora afrolatina. Este lib
https://afrofeminas.com/2025/04/07/cuando-la-historia-que-parece-ajena-revela-la-propia/
#Actualidad #afrodescendientes #Afrofminas #CapitnSwing #ClintSmith #dispora #discriminacin #ElviraSwartchLorenzo #esclavitud #libros #racismo
A Unique Wonder
I read somewhere that meteor showersare almost alwavs named after the constellation from whichthey originate. It's funny, I think, how even the universe is telling usthat we can never get too farfrom the place that created us.How there is always a streak of our pasttrailing closely behind uslike a smattering of obstinate
https://alexandersmap.com/2024/07/21/a-unique-wonder/
#Astronomy #Discovery #Lifestyle #Poetry #Stargazing #Stoicism #CarpeDiem #ClintSmith #MementoMori
Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-cJJGYu5cc
#news #politics #uspolitics #juneteenth #clintsmith #books #democracynow
Global News BC: ‘Self-defence’: Charge stayed against man accused in Nanaimo homeless camp shooting https://globalnews.ca/news/9843429/self-defence-charge-stayed-nanaimo-homeless-camp-shooting/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #nanaimoshootingchargedropped #BCProsecutionService #homelesscampshooting #HomelessEncampment #Nanaimohomeless #NanaimoShooting #ChargeStayed #CraigTruckle #NanaimoRCMP #ClintSmith #Nanaimo #Stayed #Crime
A lesson in defamiliarization from Clint Smith on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert”. #111Words #ClintSmith #LateNightWithStephenColbert #ViktorShklovsky #Defamiliarization #Poetry #ArtAsDevice https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-lesson-in-defamiliarization-from.html
* "Trauma, Trauma Everywhere," The Assignment with #AudieCornish https://castro.fm/episode/KpkIKu
* "'F*** Him, But F*** Jail': The Power of #RestorativeJustice," Some of My Best Friends Are https://castro.fm/episode/wSOFxK
* "One Fruit," the memory palace https://castro.fm/episode/r2a2QU
* "#ClintSmith," Longform https://castro.fm/episode/qJP7ry
* "Why some #Republicans want to narrow who counts as #Black," #CodeSwitch https://castro.fm/episode/N4PiY1
@Tigertash ohhh, I definitely want to check out #ClintSmith's book. I loved listening to his perspective back when he was on #PodSaveThePeople
Looking forward to learning about some of these other titles. Thanks for sharing
#HowtheWordisPassed by #ClintSmith
#Feminismforthe99%:A Manifesto by #CinziaArruzza, #TithiBhattacharya & #NancyFraser
I'm reposting this piece by a favourite voice of mine, Clint Smith. If you have not read this or his book 'How the Word Is Passed', I implore you to do so.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/12/holocaust-remembrance-lessons-america/671893/
#mastdon people, stop what you are doing and read anything by #ClintSmith. Start with How the Word is Passed, followed by this month's @theatlantic@zwezo.o-k-i.net cover story. Stay tuned for more life advice. @clintsmithiii@zwezo.o-k-i.net
@AnotherJen you've got two of my faves here: by Smith and Gaiman. Clint Smith narrates his own audiobook and it blew me away
#neilgaiman #clintsmith #thegraveyardbook #howthewordispassed
From the bird site, @ClintSmithIII #ClintSmith
A powerful meditation on what it means to reckon with history. #holocaust #slavery #indigenous #genocide
https://twitter.com/clintsmithiii/status/1592180173667205120?s=46&t=W8fNX3gHQB13hGCbd2aM6w
This is one of the books that "awoke" me to the systemic racism and slavery in America. The book? #ClintSmith's "How the Word is Passed." What a tough book to read given the truth it reveals.
"When you challenge people, specifically #white people's conception of Jefferson, you're in fact challenging their conception of themselves. "I've come to realize that there's a difference between #history and nostalgia, and somewhere between those two is memory," he said.
"I think that history is the #story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory, which is kind of this blend of history and a little bit of emotion...I mean, history is kind of about what you need to know...but nostalgia is what you want to hear."
MyNotes online at https://www.mguhlin.org/2021/09/periphery-of-memory-mynotes-word-word.html
