{"id":6216,"date":"2024-05-29T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/?page_id=6216"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:06:04","slug":"because-we-need-each-other-with-clouds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/because-we-need-each-other-with-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Because We Need Each Other (with Clouds)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I painted a slightly different version of my children looking across the ocean for Jacqueline\u2019s George Floyd Forum. Jacqueline explained the significance of looking across the open sea with a bright cloud overhead. \u201cOur history has been wrought with horrible experiences around the sea and water,\u201d she told me. \u201cI would like a painting in which African American children are happy looking at water, looking at the ocean. Where they are unafraid and embrace water\u2019s beauty and feel it can be part of their life experience, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

From the Middle Passage when slave ships transported hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children across the Atlantic to the colonies (many of whom died\u00a0 and whose bones still lie on the bottom of the ocean) to the enslaved who tried to escape dogs and guns by running through rivers (many of whom were shot and whose bones lie at the bottom of the rivers) to the Draining of the Pools, during which public swimming pools were drained and shut down, disallowing Black children to learn to swim simply because Whites didn\u2019t want Black skinned people <\/span>poisoning the water<\/span><\/i>\u2026<\/span><\/p>

Who wouldn\u2019t have an issue with water?<\/span><\/p>

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Return to All Paintings Because We Need Each Other (with Clouds) I painted a slightly different version of my children looking across the ocean for Jacqueline\u2019s George Floyd Forum. Jacqueline explained the significance of looking across the open sea with a bright cloud overhead. \u201cOur history has been wrought with horrible experiences around the sea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"fullwidth","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"hide","_kad_post_feature":"hide","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6216\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casteactionalliance.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}