Thursday, 16 July, 2020

SLACKTIVISM- Slacking on your Activism

I thought it was apt to start with a Throwback it's Thursday after all.

I rarely disagree with Barack Obama/Obama/Michelle’s Husband/ Sasha & Malia’s Dad/ Mr President. For me it has to do with feeling like you’re letting down the black community by overly scrutinising his words and undermining our struggle, he’s human he can be wrong.

The address was at The Obama Foundation Summit he was sat next to Yara Shahidi on the dais so you can imagine my spider-sense was under duress . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM this clip did the rounds on socials I’m sure many people on first watch missed it.

As he began to wag his finger and begin a soliloquy on call-out culture the glass began to break sentence by sentence. The quote read in the episode is from a written piece by Ernest Owens for the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-cancel-culture.html African American Journalist so i wasn't alone in shaking my head. After reading that i was glad to see i was not the only person in the crowd(imaginary) frowning at the points.

What i realised when i started to digest his monologue was that Just like my folks he was a boomer and his opinion /understanding of my generation and generations coming after mine was based on that unfortunate unavoidable lens

now i know, everything with a pinch of salt.

till tomorrow

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