DJ Ferguson, Author at RaceBaitr

Increased representation for marginalized people won’t fix anything if people in power remain overrepresented

When we consider the dangers of the underrepresentation of marginalized people, we can’t ignore the potential danger in the overrepresentation of people in power.

Associating child sacrifice with Indigenous cultures and the cover-up of colonialism’s bloodlust for children

July 12, 2019
DJ Ferguson
Religion

Colonizers show readiness to consign both their own children and ours to the flames of global warming rather than risk giving up global hegemony maintained primarily through capitalism.

Passing the torch to Black heroes in comics is part of the white supremacist lineage of reconciling servitude

May 31, 2019
DJ Ferguson
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Books, Film/TV, Internet, Media & Entertainment, Race & Blackness

I'm distasteful of the comic trope of for succeeding white men because I believe this is one of many strategies white people have adopted to cope with their mortality, and keeping us bound to them in servitude

Blackness doesn’t need whiteness to exist because whiteness didn’t create it. We did

April 2, 2019
DJ Ferguson
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Race & Blackness

We are agents and shapers of history, culture and discourse, not mere passive, thoughtless victims. We were sizing them up the same time they were sizing us up.

I don’t want equality with white men, and no one should

January 29, 2019
DJ Ferguson
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Race & Blackness

I don’t want more “respect” based on how much I contribute to a genocidal empire.

Appropriation is not a matter of authenticity

November 13, 2018
DJ Ferguson
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Film/TV, Non-Black POC, Race & Blackness

Fixating on the difference between others who "put on" our culture & those who create from "authentic" experiences obscures why we challenge appropriation in the first place.