Our elders are more than the utility they provide
The problem of visibility at the intersection of aging, poverty and Blackness predates me, finding its genesis on the plantation grounds.
Anti-Blackness and the Fetishization of Visibility
Anti-blackness, predictably, got in the way of something that had the potential to be a commentary on the politics of visibility under racial capitalism.
We don’t need advisory committees to take the first steps toward healing from white supremacy
After temporarily removing Christopher Columbus statues from Chicago Parks, on August 12th, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the “Project to Assess Memorials and Monuments in the City’s Public Art Collection.” Members of this project will form an advisory committee with local…
Trump is right, “To be anti-racist is to be anti-American”
If your anti-racism is concerned with upholding the mythology of America then you are not an anti-racist. When we cower away from accusations that anti-racism is un-American we perpetuate falsehoods that any type of liberation can exist under the banner of America.
Liberals won’t save us, even if they are Black
But voting is not and will never be enough. Voting often legitimizes the never ending good cop/bad cop routine of the two party system.
Black Life is a Constant Practice of Mutual Aid Work
Those feelings of hopelessness have given me time to re-examine the ways American, individualistic values have seeped into Black life. And perhaps those values have prevented us from acknowledging that we’ve always prioritized and practiced communal care in our families, neighborhoods and relationships.
You can’t condemn Bernie Sanders for his comments on Fidel Castro, without also condemning the U.S. for it’s history of violence
One cannot condemn Cuba as a repressive regime and then say that the United States, as Ronald Reagan claimed, is a city on a hill. The hypocrisy is a glaring reminder that seeks not to learn from history; only impose its will upon it.
Ayanna Pressley sees power in being a sexual violence survivor, & there’s science to that
For those of us survivors whose bodies revolt, it’s not just that we are experiencing random medicalized dysfunctions. We are reacting to the toxicity surrounding us.
Yes, we can’t: Undoing Obama’s regulation of Black political imagination
Obama’s pleas for moderation and restraint rely on discrediting and outright condemning the political imagination of younger Black people in the U.S., those largely responsible for his election.
The Mueller Report’s failure left white liberals outraged, but Black folks knew the FBI doesn’t bring justice
The strategy that some on the left were hoping would deal him a massive blow was a predictable flop. It’s astonishing, really. Right now, we’re witnessing one of the rare moments where white liberals were neglected by the very authority figures—the clean cut devotees of the FBI—who for decades have actively protected their interests at the cost of minority lives.