ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by @AndreaBruce | Words by @RBecksLee. “Why does life have so little value in our neighborhood? You only see a Black man in America who isn’t a politician when it’s bad. First we’re Black, then we come from impoverished neighborhoods, we don’t have the right education.” William Golden is the kind of person you can feel even before you come to hear him. His eyes are loud, making the visions they’ve endured pronounced and unapologetic. He is a poet and an ex-offender. He is a philosopher, a thinker, a “rapper who knows words.” If life in Frayser, North Memphis, Tennessee were an opera he would be the libretto— the key to your orientation. He is Golden. On June 17, 2018, in a conversation at Lifeline to Success, a local organization founded to help ex-offenders with reintegration after a prison sentence, Will recited Tupac: “I’m not gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” The topic was “100% participation 100% of the time.” The question: How do you participate in community under a system that has excluded you? Will today holds onto his goals, further developed though not yet materialized. “I wish I had the ability to go and protest with my brothers and sisters. I wish I already had a platform to speak from,” he said. “I won’t be able to sustain myself if I don’t work, and I really want to start a podcast, but it’s hard to come up with the money for it when I’m in survival mode all the time.” For Will, 100% participation 100% of the time means negotiating between modes of survival within a mindset anchored in his dreams. It is in knowing that given all your efforts, in the end, you remain within a system that does not offer you the tools to make dreams attainable. It is in recognizing that the challenge is a call to everyone else’s participation too: “We need people to invest in our dreams.” Check out @ourdemocracy for the full post. This project is supported by @catchlight.io and @insidenatgeo.」6月24日 0時36分