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The 89th Academy Awards - BEST PICTURE
MOONLIGHT (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins
“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr. | Letter from Birmingham Jail
Portrait of Sky Bird Black Owl, the first woman to give birth at the Standing Rock resistance camp in Cannon Ball, ND. She named her baby Mni Wiconi, “water is life.”
To be swaddled and held by our mothers is to find peace and protection wherever we are. Today I give thanks to all the women who have embraced us throughout our lives. Wopila tanka!
jackfalahee: “Café y Tapas”. Córdoba, Spain. June 2016. Canon ae1/Kodak 400xt
