The Warmth of Other Suns, the Great Migration & Ok Boomer

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This is stream of consciousness, it rises from a online convo last night about the new catch phrase- Ok Boomer. That will be (possibly justified) usage over the next months/period of time that will piss off a lot of #Not All Boomers/ I Am A Liberal So It Is Not Me.


I am a Boomer. I do not speak for anyone but myself.


Last night a 'Karen' had the absolute nerve to compare the "ageism" in OK Boomer to lynching. I am/was gobsmacked and offended and very very pissed. I kept repeating that the analogy was a false one, but on the 3rd tweet, I gave up b/c some people are stuck in their comfort and safe space.


This AM, I realizied I was going to try once more, since Karen had not blocked me. The book "The Warmth Of Other Suns", is such a base line for my changing/ learning on white supremacy that I wanted her to hear about that book.

From it's wiki- synopsis --
This work tells the story of the Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1915 to 1970.[1][2] The book intertwines a general history and statistical analysis of the entire period. It includes the biographies of three persons: a sharecropper's wife who left Mississippi in the 1930s for Chicago, named Ida Mae Brandon Gladney; an agricultural worker, George Swanson Starling, who left Florida for New York City in the 1940s; and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, a doctor who left Louisiana in the early 1950s, moving to Los Angeles.


The title comes from this poem-
"The poem is excerpted here:

I was leaving the South
to fling myself into the unknown...
I was taking a part of the South
to transplant in alien soil,
to see if it could grow differently,
if it could drink of new and cool rains,
bend in strange winds,
respond to the warmth of other suns
and, perhaps, to bloom."

— Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945"


I need to buy a copy of this book. Again

Comparing ageism to lynching🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦. The comfort of her safety is astounding