the attitude with arnie arnesen opening thoughts: alternate names for black boys and the slave sale producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude) streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH podcasts available at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 opening thoughts: Alternate names for black boys By Danez Smith 1. smoke above the burning bush 2. archnemesis of summer night 3. first son of soil 4. coal awaiting spark & wind 5. guilty until proven dead 6. oil heavy starlight 7. monster until proven ghost 8. gone 9. phoenix who forgets to un-ash 10. going, going, gone 11. gods of shovels & black veils 12. what once passed for kindling 13. fireworks at dawn 14. brilliant, shadow hued coral 15. (I thought to leave this blank but who am I to name us nothing?) 16. prayer who learned to bite & sprint 17. a mother’s joy & clutched breath Slave Sale: New Orleans

[Arnie Arnesen]

the attitude with arnie arnesen
opening thoughts: alternate names for black boys and the slave sale
producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH
podcasts available at
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179
opening thoughts: 

Alternate names for black boys By Danez Smith

1.   smoke above the burning bush

2.   archnemesis of summer night

3.   first son of soil

4.   coal awaiting spark & wind

5.   guilty until proven dead

6.   oil heavy starlight

7.   monster until proven ghost

8.   gone

9.   phoenix who forgets to un-ash

10. going, going, gone

11. gods of shovels & black veils

12. what once passed for kindling

13. fireworks at dawn

14. brilliant, shadow hued coral

15. (I thought to leave this blank

       but who am I to name us nothing?)

16. prayer who learned to bite & sprint

17. a mother’s joy & clutched breath

Slave Sale: New Orleans. By Charles Reznikoff

To begin with, the slaves had to wash themselves well,

and the men who had beards had to shave them off;

the men were then given a new suit each,

cheap but clean, and a hat, shirt, and shoes;

and the women were each given a frock of calico

and a handkerchief to tie about their heads.

They were then led by the man selling them into a large room;

the men placed on one side, the women at the other;

the tallest at the head of each row

and then the next in size

and so on to the shortest.

Many called to look at the slaves for sale

and the seller kept talking about their qualities;

made them hold up their heads and walk about briskly;

and those who might buy had them open their mouths

to look at their teeth,

and felt their arms and bodies,

just as they might a horse for sale;

and asked each what they could do.

Sometimes a man or woman would be taken to a small house

    in the yard,

to be stripped and looked at carefully:

if they had the scars of whips on their backs

that would show they had been troublesome.

During the day a number of sales were made;

and a planter from Baton Rouge bought Eliza’s little son.

Before that the boy had to jump and run across the floor

to show his activity.

But all the time the trade was going on,

his mother was crying and wringing her hands

and kept begging the man who was thinking of buying the boy

not to buy him unless he bought her, too,

and her little daughter:

and Eliza kept saying that if he did she would be “the most

    faithful slave that ever lived.”

But the man from Baton Rouge said he could not afford to

    buy her,

and then she began to cry aloud in her grief.

The man selling the slaves turned on her, his whip lifted,

and told her to stop her noise:

if she would not stop her “sniveling”

he would take her into the yard

and give her a hundred lashes.

She tried to wipe away her tears

but could not

and said she wanted to be with her children

and kept begging the man selling the slaves and the man from

    Baton Rouge—

who by that time had bought her son—

not to separate the three of them, mother, son, and daughter;

and over and over again kept saying how faithful and obedient

    she would be

and how hard she would work day and night.

But the man from Baton Rouge

said again he could not buy mother and son, let alone the three,

and that only the boy must go with him.

Then Eliza ran to her son, hugged him and kissed him

again and again

and her tears kept falling on his face.

The man selling the slaves kept cursing her

and called her a blubbering, howling wench

and ordered her back to her place in line

and to behave herself

or he would give her something really to cry about.

part one:

Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion 

https://theconversation.com/federal-and-state-authorities-are-taking-a-2-pronged-approach-to-make-it-harder-to-get-an-abortion-271378

Naomi Cahn is the Anthony M. Kennedy Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an expert in family law, feminist jurisprudence, reproductive justice, trusts and estates, and aging and the law. Prior to joining the University of Virginia faculty in 2020, she taught at George Washington Law School, where she twice served as associate dean.

Cahn's recently published book, co-authored with June Carbone and Nancy Levit, is FAIR SHAKE: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Cahn is also a co-author of casebooks in both family law and trusts and estates, and she has written numerous articles exploring the intersections among family law, trusts and estates, and feminist theory, as well as essays concerning the connections between gender and international law. In addition, she is the author or editor of books written for both academic and trade publishers. Her other books include “Red Families v. Blue Families” (Oxford University Press, 2010, with Professor June Carbone): “Homeward Bound” (Oxford University Press, 2017, with Amy Ziettlow); and “Unequal Family Lives” (Cambridge University Press, 2018, co-edited with UVA professor Brad Wilcox and others).

Sonia M. Suter’s scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law, medicine, and bioethics, with a particular focus on reproductive rights, emerging reproductive technologies, and ethical and legal issues in genetics. She has published widely in law reviews, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journals, and science journals. One of her recent articles was selected for Editors' Choice 2020 by the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in medical ethics and legal medicine. Another was chosen by the same journal’s editorial team as one of its “favorite widely read and cited articles” that has “made a big impact.” An internationally recognized expert in genetics and the law and assisted reproductive technologies, Professor Suter is a co-author of the leading textbooks in those areas. She also participates in national working groups and advisory boards and as a consultant to policymakers on issues in her field of expertise. At GW Law, she teaches Torts, Law and Medicine, Genetics and the Law, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

Before coming to GW Law, Professor Suter held a Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. She was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School and an adjunct at Georgetown University Law Center.

part two: 

Why American Life Expectancy is Falling Behind Globally, Falling Apart by State. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/why-american-life-expectancy-is-falling-behind-globally-falling-apart-by-state

America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays   https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/americas-real-health-crisis-economics-and-a-generation-pays

Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. A cultural theorist who studies the intersection of culture and economics, she is Contributing Editor at AlterNet, where she received the Bill Moyers/Schumann Foundation fellowship in journalism for 2012. She is also a frequent contributor to Reuters, Al Jazeera, Salon, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Her first book of cultural history, Reading the Sphinx (Palgrave Macmillan) was named a “Notable Scholarly Book for 2008” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. A web entrepreneur, Parramore is co-founder of the Next New Deal (formerly New Deal 2.0) blog of the Roosevelt Institute, where she served as media fellow from 2009-2011, and she is also co-founder of Recessionwire.com, and founding editor of IgoUgo.com. Parramore received her doctorate from New York University in 2007. She has taught writing and semiotics at NYU and has collaborated with some of the country’s leading economists her ebooks, including “Corporations for the 99%” with William Lazonick and “New Economic Visions” with Gar Alperovitz. In 2011, she co-edited a key documentary book on the Occupy movement: The 99%: How the Occupy Movement is Changing America.

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