i do not want to diminish the suffering that led up to this,
nor the suffering that continues because of it -
but it is so clear, to me, that the reactions from media and
dominant interests (white) are a horrified refusal to admit that
the enemy is moving from a recognizable subject
to an unidentified subject, and white people are the unidentified
nation that controls America.
that this is the third - fourth? incident of white boys taking
guns to school to slaughter;
and how many grown white men have opened fire in MacDonald's restaurants
or post offices or other public places?
the passion for violence and the glorification of weaponry is part of the
white military structure,
the white patriarchy,
and if folks really want to understand how this happens,
there has to be - there must be - an effort to make sense of what
whiteness is protecting/preventing/controlling/denying.
diane
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When she walks,
the revolution's coming.
In her hips, there's revolution.
When she talks, I hear revolution.
In her kiss, I taste the revolution.
(poem by Kathleen Hanna: Riot Grrl)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia
centre for the study of curriculum and knowledge
vancouver, british columbia, canada