I miss my uncle. It’s been 36 hours since he died suddenly and I miss him so much already. I feel like my heart’s been shattered. It sounds weird but I feel like even my bones are crying. And my heart weighs heavy thinking of my cousins, who are still in high school. I mean, I ADORED my uncle and I only got to see him a few times, I can’t imagine what his boys are feeling. I know he loved them so much, and it kills me to think he won’t even get to see them graduate. And his wife- they’ve been together 6 or 7 years and just got married a year ago; she’s only 28. I can’t even imagine what she’s feeling. We’re all still grieving the death of my grandfather, who died suddenly in October, and now this. I got to see my uncle for the first time in 7 years when we were all up for the week in October for my popa’s funeral. He and I got to talk a lot that week. I keep replaying those conversations in my head. Recalling our conversations is both comforting and making me cry endlessly. He was such a loving and well-loved person. I miss him so much. 46 is too young.
December 2011
You can't choose what stays and what fades away.
“One can never be entirely free, if one admires someone else too much.”
—Tove Jansson (via pukerparty)
“To prevent Africans and Native Americans from uniting, Europeans played skillfully on racial differences and ethnic rivalries. They kept the pot of animosity boiling. Whites turned Indians into slavehunters and slave owners, and Africans into “Indian-fighters”. Light-skinned Africans were pitted against dark-skinned, free against enslaved, Black Indians against “pure” Africans or “pure” Indians.
Those who have put history into books have emphasized differences between Africans and Native Americans. For example, they have stressed that Europeans encountered Indians as distinct individuals and members of proud nations, and Africans as nameless slaves. Little mention is made of the enslavement of Native Americans and nothing is said about the cultural similarities between the two dark peoples. In 1984, scholar Theda Perdue said: “By emphasizing the actual, exaggerated and imagined differences between Africans and Indians, whites successfully masked the cultural similarities of the two races as well as their mutual exploitation by whites.” —William Loren Katz, Black Indian: A Hidden Heritage (via adailyriot)
Those who have put history into books have emphasized differences between Africans and Native Americans. For example, they have stressed that Europeans encountered Indians as distinct individuals and members of proud nations, and Africans as nameless slaves. Little mention is made of the enslavement of Native Americans and nothing is said about the cultural similarities between the two dark peoples. In 1984, scholar Theda Perdue said: “By emphasizing the actual, exaggerated and imagined differences between Africans and Indians, whites successfully masked the cultural similarities of the two races as well as their mutual exploitation by whites.” —William Loren Katz, Black Indian: A Hidden Heritage (via adailyriot)
