Blackness doesn’t need whiteness to exist because whiteness didn’t create it. We did
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.
Our desire for white validation created Sam Whiteout
We need no more Sam Whiteouts when so many Black people are living, existing, and surviving with the brilliance white folks will never have the range to hold.
The unbearable whiteness of the liberal corgi owner
By Aja Barber There is no dog that I hate. I love most dogs. There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. And there’s a dog owner I loathe. She’s a neighbor; a white woman whose outrageous behavior and rule-breaking…
Enduring whiteness: the tragic love affair that gave rise to Donald Trump.
By Quentin Lucas It is a powerful reflex, almost a soul’s nervous tic, to wonder and worry, about what whiteness is going to think — even while knowing that whiteness doesn’t allow much room for thought. That, of course, isn’t…
The impossibility of justice for Black lives.
By Zoe Samudzi Over and over again—for literal centuries—Black people have had to come to terms with the invisiblization of our murderers. After prosecutors announced they were dropping charges against the remaining police officers facing trial "in connection with" the death…
To white liberals who don’t care
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes We still don’t know what happened to Sandra Bland and the other Black women lynched in jail cells last July. One year later and we are not celebrating independence. We are mourning. Jai Lateef Solveig Williams was…
Why I Don’t Talk to White People.
By Quentin Lucas A few years ago, I struggled through a date at an art museum, admiring, but mostly just trying to understand, the pieces comprising a feminist exhibit. The woman I was with, much more educated about the subject…
My Whiteness And My Blackness Are Not Reconcilable.
by Amber Rambharose Almost any given object can be split in half with each half making up 50% of whole. I can only think of one exception. When someone asks if I am half black or half white, I don't…
After Charleston – To Be Young, Gifted, Black, And Alive.
by Maurice Tracy I. To be young, gifted and Black/ Oh what a lovely precious dream/to be young, gifted and Black The scariest moment for a Black person living in this country is when you realize that there is no space…
(Still) Playing in the Dark: From People of Color to Black and Back Again.
by RJ Eldridge A couple of years ago, before Baltimore and Ferguson reinvigorated an American conversation around black bodies and the law, an article about an often-used phrase caught my eye. Entitled, “What’s Wrong with the Term ‘Person of Color,’”…
