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Samantha Power

I'm reading The Education of an Idealist and really enjoying it. I found 2 videos that give a sense of her, and talk about the book.

Book TV

Amanpour and Company

Wikipedia Entry


She supported men who were stoical, were never sure an intervention was successful or really helped, and who were humble. I couldn't help but think that when she was proud of herself, she did not have the support of meditation to see the interconnectedness that helps one to be, inter alia, humble.

My Serbian friend said about the breakup of Yugoslavia, "Knowing the reality on the ground versus the media-political propaganda machine threw wide open what else we’ve been lied about. Therefore I have no patience in listening to people lying to themselves. Flocking in false virtue and fogs of hysteria. Tribal stupidity of those who espouse atheism while evangelizing in pure zeal with fists and slogans. Gen xers should know better. We should have been taught some history."


Quotes from book:

"Stone Mountain, Georgia’s 1,600-foot-tall granite behemoth, into which the Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson had been carved. Only decades later did I learn that the monument had been commissioned by segregationists and was the scene of numerous Klan gatherings over the years. Georgia’s history of lynching and violent racism was routinely ignored or minimized in our school history lessons."

I'm wondering what people are thinking of with the heightened moment of racial awareness that we are going through. Any calls to erase the relief on Stone Mountain? I went on Reddit, and there was no ground swelling to get rid of it, though people did note it might not be what we need now.

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