Somehow, we have to figure out ways of extending and institutionalizing our attention to it".
Most of us had hospitalized or institutionalized our children more than once, and all had been questioned by social workers: "Is there violence in the home?" "Have you sexually abused her?" In other words: what in God's name did you do to this person?
Ultimately, we have institutionalized our very beginnings as well as our ends.
Today they have become institutionalized: our economic system institutionalizes greed, militarism is institutionalized ill will and our powerful media mega-corporations institutionalize delusion.
How can a people who gather every week around a table that reminds us of the ultimate nature of our commitment, that institutionalizes our embrace of powerlessness, be afraid of death?
Be it by food, ceremony, or institutionalizing our healing practices, Black wellness asks us not only to believe in self-determination politically, but to imbue that belief with the raw material--the serotonin, dopamine, GABA, oxytocin--that makes the self feel vibrantly worth determining.
But, primarily, it requires an acknowledgement that sexism is real and that bias is institutionalized in our culture.
If we see each other as teammates, we will work in solidarity to address the injustices that are institutionalized throughout our society.
The Ferguson unrest triggered after the shooting of a young black man, Michael Brown, on August 09, 2014 and subsequent protests and investigations, has shown the extent to which racism has become institutionalized in our law enforcement establishment.
