I'm not super into poetry, but this came across my twitter feed a few months ago and it's been sitting on my chrome bookmarks bar since then. I truly believe it's something everyone should read, and I find myself thinking of all the people in our current day that we continue to ask to "walk into the water and stay there"-- refugees especially.
Yes. We're _all_ sorry... as in: we sit on our sorry asses and watch TV and eat popcorn and flip through the channels so we won't have to see what the government of our country is doing to other people in our name. I'm sorry. What could I do or say? How could I put a stop to it? How?
Septembre 2024 and we're still very sorry 😢
I'm not super into poetry, but this came across my twitter feed a few months ago and it's been sitting on my chrome bookmarks bar since then. I truly believe it's something everyone should read, and I find myself thinking of all the people in our current day that we continue to ask to "walk into the water and stay there"-- refugees especially.
June Jordan's words speak for themselves, and bear re-reading and re-listening. Monet delivers them well.
Still relevant in 2024. This poem was written 42 years ago in 1982! 💔
Powerful
Interesting,
Yes. We're _all_ sorry... as in: we sit on our sorry asses and watch TV and eat popcorn and flip through the channels so we won't have to see what the government of our country is doing to other people in our name. I'm sorry. What could I do or say? How could I put a stop to it? How?