Running as an act of Resistance
I could have chosen to run east, away from the scene. Instead, I headed west, daring to face the waiting hate.
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.
Nothing is clean enough for a pandemic when your blood is dirty
The funny thing about the order to stay “six feet” apart from one another is that folks like me can’t be too sure if the orderer is suggesting the distance we should be standing, or the distance we should be buried.
Elite education left blood on my hands. Now it’s my responsibility to heal the damage
I know that my university won’t ever help me to be free, because its own existence is predicated on upholding white supremacy.
Coded or not, it’s still racism
While Black folks decipher this lexicon for our own survival, white folks either remain oblivious to the whole exchange or worse, actively deny any wrongdoing in an attempt to preserve a perception of neutrality.
What exactly is “micro” about microaggressions?
Between macro and micro, I would choose neither. I haven’t been able to make the microaggressions feel any less aggressive than a full slap to the face. For me, the macro only provides substance to the micro.
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.
Caster Semenya and how the biomedical industry is designed to kill Black people
The idea that there are only two genders is an intentional capitalist and colonial project used to strengthen the political economies of hegemony and anti-Blackness.
It’s time to abolish elite universities
Harvard, Princeton & Yale have all perpetuated and continue to benefit from chattel slavery. This ideology affected state and public policy in insidious ways that have carried over to the present
