on apology and restitution
Mia Mingus writes that apologies need to be full and unconditional with no but at the end of the recognition of the wrong one is admitting.
.2023
On the structural racism of borders and how they are inscribed into the geopolitics of representation and visibility of white western and northern bodies
Mia Mingus writes that apologies need to be full and unconditional with no but at the end of the recognition of the wrong one is admitting.
That’s what make the apology credible, authentic. That’s what open space for healing and restitution.
The point of an apology for the one doing it, beside recognizing the wrong, serve to name the complicity and the privilege one share with structural systems of oppression.
The unconditional apology help the one giving it to break out from obedience, compliance and benefit.
In the context of a public apology, the “but” is the back-door to the system revealed and denounced under the argument of higher responsibilities one has no power to overcome