With all due respect, if you couldn‘t answer that question the first time, you shouldn‘t be running for the office you‘re running for. I don‘t want a president who panders to a base who can‘t accept an honest answer.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221988690/nikki-haley-didnt-say-slavery-caused-t...
[Stephen Lewis in 2005 re AIDS in Africa] When people say, sometimes triumphantly, that prevalence rates have levelled off, what they mean most often is that the number of people who have died equals the number of new infections. It‘s Mathematicus Diabolus. I live in hope, but I also live in rage…I will devote every fibre of my body to fighting this virus, but I cannot abide the willful inattention of so much of the global community.
pickThe facts here might be outdated, but the principles aren‘t. I was captivated by these Massey lectures in 2005, given by a brilliant and dedicated Canadian diplomat and advocate whose burning passion for justice for Africans, people with AIDS, and women is palpable. He deconstructs racism and sexism that perpetuate the pandemic, and names needed changes. Progress has been made, but more is needed.
#Booked2022 #AboutAIDS
#Nonfiction2022 #ImASaint
My wrap for #Nonfiction2022 : thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for the great prompts and @Amiable for some of the AuldLangSpine suggestions. I didn't do the whole card like last year and the year before (blame it on ReadingAfrica, blame it on Wordle) but there's three bingo lines and lots of amazing books int here.
Happy birthday Jim Henson, on what would‘ve been your 86th birthday! Thank you for making this world a better place!
Quote from the beginning of this book:
“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little better for my being here.“ - Jim Henson
More love for this wonderful book. It was challenged in 2015 for containing images of poverty & for downplaying American Exceptionalism.
Boots says, “Hiss!!!” to book bans!
#bbrc #catsoflitsy
pickGrand Days by Frank Moorhouse is wonderful. It‘s a chunkster but it kept my interest. Set in Geneva in the 1920‘s, telling the story of Edith Campbell Berry who starts her career at the League of Nations. Edith is wonderful ..naive yet sophisticated, loyal, brave and wise for her years. She‘s also playful and very modern!! Some of the issues she deals with women still deal with today!!
On to The Bluest Eye..
@CarolynM loved it❤️
Next on my list is Grand Days in honour of Frank Moorhouse who recently died. An Australian must read… some say a masterpiece…it‘s been one I should have read years ago! It‘s a chunkster @ 700 pages😊
#australianclassic #fiction #literature
