When we conceptualize
our nation as an ecosystem,
our national and societal
wounds — and their urgent
need for repair — become
deeply
apparent.
Despite
this dire need for healing,
it is also society’s responsi-
bility to strive toward that
reparation — to strive to
nourish, to thrive effective-
ly and efficiently. Michigan
in Color’s was established
in pursuit of healing and
education. And while we
attempt to distinguish our-
selves as a section, we must
continue with dignity and
unwavering
reclamation:
The kind of resonance we
can use to amplify your sen-
timents, stories, ideas and
truth — inspiring a com-
munity understanding and
safety. A creation of a new
form of justice.
Despite society’s superfi-
cial attempts to placate peo-
ple of color, this space was
created to actualize empow-
erment and flourishing in a
nurturing community until
these safe spaces are not an
abnormality, but an expec-
tation.
The people have shown
us the amount of revolu-
tion that can happen in just
a few short months. They
have further elucidated—
there exists a dire need for a
nuanced approach to politi-
cal and social movements,
with knowledge of our his-
torical
past
championed
by the minority. We have
learned
that
revolutions
begin with education. We
intend to start off the year
on that note and ensure that
the movement lives unapol-
ogetically in our work. To
our amazing summer man-
aging
editors,
Gabrijela
Skoko and Cheryn Hong, we
thank you for bringing the
fire and diligence to MiC
that allowed this section to
be a platform for that educa-
tion, and we thank all of our
amazing writers for provid-
ing us with content that
could enlighten week after
week. Let’s keep it rolling.
Michigan
in
Color
is
an entity whose work is
grounded in ancestral and
world knowledge, pursuing
and springboarding valu-
able change with empathy
and unity. In everything we
do, we hope to inspire oth-
ers to center intersectional
voices, injustices and sys-
tems of oppression in order
to properly establish a route
toward restorative justice.
In doing this, one will inevi-
tably learn about the sur-
prisingly universal ways in
which we have all experi-
enced life; we are not as dif-
ferent as we may proclaim
to be. The colonial violence
that oppresses Black peo-
ple in America is the same
that oppresses Palestinians
across the ocean, is the same
that separates immigrant
families at the border, is
the same that draws district
lines and upholds systemic
poverty and mass incar-
ceration. It is intolerable, if
not deplorable, that a small
fraction of the population,
the billionaire elite, are
given the power to destroy
and exploit the environment
to the exponential degree
that they have. The voices
we give a platform to in our
space are voices of change,
ones that have experienced
some degree of oppression
and who work to actively
deconstruct
the
systems
perpetuating that oppres-
sion. These voices and our
editors strive to empower
individuals and bridge com-
munities, but most impor-
tantly and overwhelmingly
to incite transformation, to
incite revolution.
This is a call to action.
A call to join the ceaseless
fight until all of our commu-
nities have the same access
to opportunity that we have
as students at this Univer-
sity. A call to requiring and
demanding
dignity
and
respect as a human right. To
expose and dispose of sys-
tems and mechanisms that
use “—the consistent appli-
cation of violent solutions
to nonviolent, and often
nonexistent,
problems.”
Michigan in Color needs
your energy and your art,
your peace and your pres-
ence, not only as tangible
documentation of our dis-
satisfactions, but also of our
jubilations.
To the university and to
communities across cam-
pus, it is not enough to be
aware. “Don’t you see the
plants, the birds, the spi-
ders and bees going about
their individual tasks, put-
ting the world in order, as
best as they can? And you’re
not willing to do your job as
a human being? Why aren’t
you running to do what your
nature demands;” why is it
radical to demand what our
nature inclines?
We urge all readers to con-
tinue to learn and unlearn.
Continue to question the
systems that we are volun-
tarily and involuntarily a
part of. Continue to read-
just your lens when a new
angle is presented — having
the difficult conversations
along with the joyful ones.
We urge all artists, all
creators to continue shar-
ing your stories with MiC
and in general. We are
currently
hiring
colum-
nists, bloggers and graphic
designers. If you are a stu-
dent of color interested in
contributing go online to
apply and learn more about
open positions. You do not
need to hold one or any of
these positions to write
for the section, we accept
contributions
regularly,
which you can submit to
our
email:
michiganin-
color@umich.edu. Do not
underestimate your voice
or your intellect — they are
the foundations of peace
and revolution, of hope and
understanding and they are
integral to societal develop-
ment.
MiC Editorial Staff
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Michigan In Color
6 — Wednesday, September 2, 2020
A Michigan in Color Manifesto
Photo courtsey of DANIELA LUGO
“There is never time in the
future in which we will
work out our salvation. The
challenge is in the moment;
the time is always now”
– James Baldwin
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adventure,
maybe
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at times
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a hint to the five
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answers
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offering
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grooves
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bookmarked
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monogram
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thanks
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Famer Wade
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Starship
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markings
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Harbor
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weapon
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target
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code
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