Against the grain of the state\u2019s mono\u00adpo\u00adli\u00adza\u00adtion of cere\u00admo\u00adny, cere\u00admo\u00adnies are small and pro\u00adfli\u00adgate ; if they weren\u2019t eve\u00adryw\u00adhere and all the time we\u2019d be dead. The ruins, which are small rituals, aren\u2019t absent but sur\u00adrep\u00adti\u00adtious, a range of song\u00adful scar\u00adring, when people give a sign, shake a hand. But what if toge\u00adther we can fall, because we\u2019re fal\u00adlen, because we need to fall again, to conti\u00adnue in our com\u00admon fal\u00adlen\u00adness, remem\u00adbe\u00adring that fal\u00adling is in appo\u00adsi\u00adtion to rising, their com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion given in lin\u00adge\u00adring, as the giving of pause, recess, ves\u00adti\u00adbu\u00adlar remain, cus\u00adto\u00addial remand, hold, hol\u00adding in the inter\u00adest of rub, dap\u2019s reflex and reflec\u00adtion of mater\u00adnal touch, a mater\u00adnal eco\u00adlo\u00adgy of laid hands, of being hand\u00adled, han\u00added, han\u00added down, nurture\u2019s natu\u00adral dis\u00adper\u00adsion, its end\u00adless refu\u00adsal of stan\u00adding. Hemphill empha\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly announces the socia\u00adli\u00adty that Luther shel\u00adters. Fallen, risen, mo(u)rnful sur\u00advi\u00adval. When black men die, it\u2019s usual\u00adly because we love each other, whe\u00adther we run, or fight, or sur\u00adren\u00adder. Consider Michael Brown\u2019s gene\u00adra\u00adtive occur\u00adrence and recur\u00adrence as refu\u00adsal of the case, as refu\u00adsal of stan\u00adding. You can do this but only if you wish to insert your\u00adself, and now I must abuse a phrase of Ah Kee\u2019s, into black world\u00adless\u00adness. Our home\u00adless\u00adness. Our sel\u00adfless\u00adness. None of which are or can be ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Against the grain of the state\u2019s mono\u00adpo\u00adli\u00adza\u00adtion of cere\u00admo\u00adny, cere\u00admo\u00adnies are small and pro\u00adfli\u00adgate ; if they weren\u2019t eve\u00adryw\u00adhere and all the time we\u2019d be dead. The ruins, which are small rituals, aren\u2019t absent but sur\u00adrep\u00adti\u00adtious, a range of song\u00adful scar\u00adring, when people give a sign, shake a hand. But what if toge\u00adther we can fall, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1173,1174,1195,1202,1178],"class_list":["post-11029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-apposition","tag-black","tag-homelessness","tag-michael-brown","tag-moten","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}