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Monday, July 20, 2020

Sleep is for privileged white people, popular magazine says — so now activists call for 'rest reparations' - TheBlaze

Sleep is for privileged white people, popular magazine says — so now activists call for 'rest reparations' - TheBlaze:

Image result for flickr commons images Sleep maskBlack Power Naps — created by writers Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa — insists that black lives are shorter than white lives because blacks experience "generational fatigue" simply on the grounds that they are African American.
The magazine describes Black Power Naps as an "artistic initiative with components including physical installations, zines, an opera, and more."
Writers Acosta and Sosa revealed that they experienced an epiphany: They were always tired, and realized that it was because they were impacted by "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism.

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