Ensemble1698878795 said: "SeanD2 said: "Kad said: ""White acknowledged that he saw people leave meetings with Sharif in tears, but does not think it was right to blame her. “It’s not about her behavior; it’s about their ability to receive,” he told DCTA."
This is a wild statement. White does a remarkably terrible job of defending Sharif throughout this."
Based on all of White’s comments in this defending Sharif’s behavior I’m terrified for the future of Wooly Mammoth!"
Of course you’re concerned. Because when Black folks who don’t agree with the white majority are in places of power, they are usually forced out like Sharif. God forbid Reggie have a different experience of her, he’s something to be “concerned about.” This kind of commentary is exactly the mindset of these institutions. Sure you can lead, but don’t step too far out of line from our morals and vision. It’s so tired. So exhausting and so racist. But you folks actually don’t care. You like it this way."
Sharif supporters seem to live in an alternate reality where she couldn't possibly fail the institution, no matter what she did. The institution could only fail her.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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