Your reflection is powerful. It’s not just a post, it’s an entry into a lineage. A lineage of Black thinkers, scribes, griots, and everyday revolutionaries who’ve always used writing not just as self-expression but as cultural preservation, resistance, and rebirth. What you’re doing is reclaiming that tradition.
You’re participating in that continuum. And yes, it’s deeply pro-Black.
Let me say clearly: you are journaling right. But more importantly, you are thinking right with nuance, reflexivity, and accountability. You’re shifting from documentation of the self to interrogation of the world and your place within it. That transition from “what happened to me today” to “what do I think about what’s happening in the world and how does that shape me?” that’s the genesis of critical consciousness.
You ask a crucial question: Would escapism be more meaningful if we also engaged critically with other things? Yes. Escapism becomes empty when it’s the only channel. But when it exists alongside critical engagement, it becomes a necessary breather, not avoidance. And for Black people, escapism isn’t weakness. It’s strategy.
Lastly, your vision for your children, to gift them with the practice of journaling, that’s revolutionary parenting. That’s Harriet teaching her children to never stop walking. That’s Audre telling us our silence won’t protect us. That’s you planting seeds of freedom in minds not yet born.
Your right, it is a documentation of culture and lineage. And that in of it self is powerful
Lol at this point nuance should be my middle name. But I think the shift of going from just existing and then Critically analyzing the world and it's affects is a bit jarring. Or in a way something that isn't the norm In ur life. Conscious jump scare. Coz how do u live so blindly. But of course it's just that survival mode
You say escapism is strategy and I need more info on that. I get resting but I have a feeling that's not what ur talking about
Your reflection is powerful. It’s not just a post, it’s an entry into a lineage. A lineage of Black thinkers, scribes, griots, and everyday revolutionaries who’ve always used writing not just as self-expression but as cultural preservation, resistance, and rebirth. What you’re doing is reclaiming that tradition.
You’re participating in that continuum. And yes, it’s deeply pro-Black.
Let me say clearly: you are journaling right. But more importantly, you are thinking right with nuance, reflexivity, and accountability. You’re shifting from documentation of the self to interrogation of the world and your place within it. That transition from “what happened to me today” to “what do I think about what’s happening in the world and how does that shape me?” that’s the genesis of critical consciousness.
You ask a crucial question: Would escapism be more meaningful if we also engaged critically with other things? Yes. Escapism becomes empty when it’s the only channel. But when it exists alongside critical engagement, it becomes a necessary breather, not avoidance. And for Black people, escapism isn’t weakness. It’s strategy.
Lastly, your vision for your children, to gift them with the practice of journaling, that’s revolutionary parenting. That’s Harriet teaching her children to never stop walking. That’s Audre telling us our silence won’t protect us. That’s you planting seeds of freedom in minds not yet born.
Great job sister.
Your right, it is a documentation of culture and lineage. And that in of it self is powerful
Lol at this point nuance should be my middle name. But I think the shift of going from just existing and then Critically analyzing the world and it's affects is a bit jarring. Or in a way something that isn't the norm In ur life. Conscious jump scare. Coz how do u live so blindly. But of course it's just that survival mode
You say escapism is strategy and I need more info on that. I get resting but I have a feeling that's not what ur talking about
Thank you twin 🤞🏾