as someone who can be pretty dramatic, I can be over the top but I have to share this story...I got the privilege to visit Harvard and deliver a short guest talk/Q&A for a course called: Educating to Transform Society. I tried to resist the affirmation of Harvard and all its prestige and elitist brand power (built on the affirmative action of slave money) but still couldn't help but smile thinking of the privileges my little brothers would have if one day our family had "legacy" here. 👊🏾That said, It was affirming to see a few of the sharpest minds in our country not flinch when hearing the words white supremacy or to see them fully embrace the need for healing, love and critical consciousness in the concrete crucibles/classrooms we reserve for our most exploited roses/students. Even crazier, though, is this stranger (Wilson) and his wife (Anna) offering me their home and a bed for the night, and taking me out to get to know a few of the other students in the course...having never met me before. 👏🏾 Will I parallel this to Malcolm X softening his stance on white people as Devils after returning from his trip to Mecca? Yes, partly. Do I plan on chilling out my rhetoric/actions about white supremacy in Africa and the Americas, white cops who murder our bodies or white institutions who shackle our freedom to their profit margins? Hell no. If anything, it just proves to me that the lifelong process of unlearning what this violent society has taught you...is possible. ✊🏾Nonetheless, moments like these in my journey help me Heal...and slowly regain my capacity for intimacy. "Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." -Coretta Scott King☝🏾 #TrumpWonNH #UncleSamGoddamn #HarvardAndSlavery #IndividualUpwardMobility vs. #CollectiveMobilization (at Harvard University)