Imagining A Different World

This episode of #NoWednesday is part vent session, part exploration. In the wake of the news that the killers of Breonna Taylor won't be charged for it, Emmanuel gets vulnerable about Blackness in America and wanting to get away, even if just in imagination.  

Sources: 

Breonna Taylor case https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jury.html  Alisha Wormsley - There Are Black People In The Future https://alishabwormsley.com/ Joyful Noise: Outkast - Liberation https://open.spotify.com/track/1H6S9OkozTNvcASUX4Bfgb  and Jamila Woods -HEAVN  https://open.spotify.com/track/1m0h3R7ypXe4oddXKF785J  O’Jays - I Love Music  https://open.spotify.com/track/222TScMmzaZ0IdkvbLoin2 Black Wall Street https://www.history.com/news/black-wall-street-tulsa-race-massacre Watchmen HBO https://www.hbo.com/watchmen  Rosewood Massacre https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/rosewood-massacre Solange - Weary https://open.spotify.com/track/7zbX1txfcs42K2PlhFJNNE Curtis Mayfield - We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue https://open.spotify.com/track/6dSdoRdRIJ7fUvxDRq9Ln1 Derrick Bell's "Faces At the Bottom Of The Well" (where "The Afrolantica Awakening" is included) https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/faces-at-the-bottom-of-the-well-derrick-bell/1111985559 Key & Peele - Negrotown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA&list=RDYJAGNad7FLI&index=11   Toni Morrison distraction quote, via the Portland State Black Studies Center public dialogue: https://soundcloud.com/portland-state-library/portland-state-black-studies-1?mc_cid=7a27cfd978&mc_eid=e2efbcffa9   Igbo Landing and the "Flying Africans" https://m.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ebos-landing   Freedom, Georgia https://thefreedomgeorgiainitiative.com/ and https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperative-toomsboro/index.html   #IncreaseYourLexicon "Abscond” (v): to break away or flee from; to escape. 

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