I heard Mariame Kaba on Ibram X's show. I am a black man but I would love to hear her debate her views with someone astute in these matters from the other side of the spectrum. Maybe victims of crime or people living in crime ridden areas who want to have more criminals arrested. Maybe police who witness the ravages of crime on families and communities. Often social justice people are given a free pass to extol their lofty ideas which oftentimes lead to unintentional, yet deleterious outcomes.
I haven't listened to this yet but I have heard Kelli speak a number of times describing actual work and encounters with local neighborhood people involved in a variety of community issues. your point is very well taken though about the seemingly common disconnection between local people experiencing violence and other negative things in their own local lives versus activists who are at somewhat of a distance. what are the reasons I like the movie Norma Rae with Sally Field is that the outside union organizer who eventually did leave involved himself in the whole community and the lives of individuals. that's a Hollywood movie based on true stories, so I don't know how accurate the portrayal is. But I also have worked in some community support and activism efforts focused around education, including neighborhood Chamber of Commerce, adult literacy, teacher training and youth tutoring/scholarship programs, &c. my degrees of personal collection with people I worked with varied from living in the same community to living away from the community. other people doing similar work whom I know and who do the best work always live in the same community as the people they collaborate with on some type of improvement or another.
This is a perfect title and I hope folks are excited to check this book out!
I heard Mariame Kaba on Ibram X's show. I am a black man but I would love to hear her debate her views with someone astute in these matters from the other side of the spectrum. Maybe victims of crime or people living in crime ridden areas who want to have more criminals arrested. Maybe police who witness the ravages of crime on families and communities. Often social justice people are given a free pass to extol their lofty ideas which oftentimes lead to unintentional, yet deleterious outcomes.
I haven't listened to this yet but I have heard Kelli speak a number of times describing actual work and encounters with local neighborhood people involved in a variety of community issues. your point is very well taken though about the seemingly common disconnection between local people experiencing violence and other negative things in their own local lives versus activists who are at somewhat of a distance. what are the reasons I like the movie Norma Rae with Sally Field is that the outside union organizer who eventually did leave involved himself in the whole community and the lives of individuals. that's a Hollywood movie based on true stories, so I don't know how accurate the portrayal is. But I also have worked in some community support and activism efforts focused around education, including neighborhood Chamber of Commerce, adult literacy, teacher training and youth tutoring/scholarship programs, &c. my degrees of personal collection with people I worked with varied from living in the same community to living away from the community. other people doing similar work whom I know and who do the best work always live in the same community as the people they collaborate with on some type of improvement or another.