HeyJaredNotes From an Unruly Quaker
Joy. Rage. Hope. Grounded social justice. Solidarity. Stories. Questions. Mistakes. Rolling twice monthly-ish into your inbox.
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Dear Durham, (opens the original)
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Wooo doggy I’m mad as a wet hen.In just the last two days, I’ve seen in super-progressive, “dope” Durham: (1) Durham Police Department and city trucks to violently and heartlessly dismantle an encampment of homeless people — without giving them anywhere else to go<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GRWw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc64d8676-e200-488d-a5b4-91ad
What if we’re all holy, and what if that includes chickens? (opens the original)
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Every evening at dusk, someone in our family tucks our chickens in. Last night, Georgina was missing.We alternate tuck-in responsibility from week to week. This keeps the chore fair and avoids a nightly round of rock-paper-scissors. On cold or stormy nights, the stakes increase: “Dang! Best two out of three! Noooo! Best three out of five!” Thus the pre-planned schedule. Our beloved chickens have a yard that is fenced with—you guessed it—chicken wire. It keeps the chickens in (mostly) but is not,
Have you ever lost your job? (opens the original)
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Heh, that’s funny, as if you’re walking along and you get this feeling like you forgot something. You pat your pockets and say to yourself, “Oh shoot. Where’s my job? It must be around here somewhere.”No indeed. You didn’t lose it. You got shitcanned. And your heart breaks if you loved your job. And even if you didn’t love your job, your brain starts doing money math like you’re a young custodian doing maths at MIT. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image
Hey white folks: when did you realize you were white? When did you realize you fit into a racial category? (opens the original)
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No really, white folks. Please take a moment to think about it. Because a close friend, a Black radical, recently asked me these questions, and it’s important.When did you realize — I mean deep down, to your bones — that you are white? That you have a racial identity that you can’t outrun, no matter how woke you are on the inside?When did you further piece it together that the U.S. is a white-supremacist society, economy, and government, the whole she-bang, and that no matter where you go, or ho
Why I like the 4th of July (opens the original)
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I got an email from Family Tree this week:Jennifer, you are related to a signer of The Declaration of Independence. Your 8th cousin once removed was one of the founding fathers of the United States! Show your pride and family heritage this Independence Day holiday!Deep breath.Big yikes.Yup, here we are: the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.A., marked by the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Which, apparently, one of my ancestors signed.Refresher: the Declaration of Indepen
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