If America were a child and the presidency its guardian Photo by Jonas Karakoto on Unsplash America unveiled by 2020 is like a child who has wakened: vulnerable, screaming for attention, for comfort, for nourishment, for touch and connection, for belonging. The child's development has been compromised by unfit guardianship in the form of poor … Continue reading U.S. Democrats Are About to Assume the Care Of A ‘Sickly, Unsettled Child’
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Five Lessons For America From Kenya’s 2007 Graphic Post-Election Violence
Photo by Pawel Janiak on Unsplash From Christopher Columbus’ famous landing to the ongoing Antifa riots, American history is written in violence and blood. I never acknowledged this reality until the recent social unrest. Before that, I had enshrined America as my benevolent childhood hero incapable of injustice and violence. Growing up in rural Kenya, I romanticized … Continue reading Five Lessons For America From Kenya’s 2007 Graphic Post-Election Violence
How an analogy of trees can explain ethnicity, race and people of colour to children
Socotra bottle treeWisteria vine, JapanStrangler Fig. Guangxi, China “The one with a burnt face! I’m talking to the girl with a burnt face.” Quipped a child pointing at me in a busload of teachers and school children during my early days in a new school as a teacher. (No, I do not have a burnt … Continue reading How an analogy of trees can explain ethnicity, race and people of colour to children
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