Christina Sharpe explores the everyday complexities of Canadian Black life in her work as a professor and shares those experiences in her new form-defying book, Ordinary Notes. | cbcbooks
with Paul D on the chain gang in Alfred, Georgia and those notes given in the morning and in the evening to end the kind of violence of the white men with the rifles who guard them. I wanted to think about how his ordinary notes don't stop the violence, but they do turn it in another direction and they do provide the means by which the men come to trust each other.
One of the notes, one of your notes I found most chilling, was your description of taking part in a protest against the police murder of a young Black man in Baltimore. And you described the protesters chanting no justice, no peace. And then they encounter a group of white baseball fans who chant in response, "We don't care. We don't care." What was that experience like for you?
Well, it's not that my mother said that to me in those words, but that was what the action of that moment said to me. I think I've responded to that by continuing the work of thinking with and reading literature and visual arts made by Black people. My mother really wanted me to see the intellectual, creative work that Black people did. I had no Black teachers until I got to university.
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