Myles Walker, Author at The DC Voice

Antiracist: Purely Performative if Your Allyship Isn\’t There When it\’s Needed

Can I Speak Freely, Opinion / Myles Walker

This just in: It is now hip to be antiracist. Months of international civil rights protests and several high-profile cases of police brutality and racial violence have left hordes of non-Black Americans scrambling to get onto the “right side of history.” To be sure, there are many such “allies” with noble intentions, but there are […]

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Fake News: The Butler Tapes

Entertainment, Fake News / Myles Walker

Category 5 Hurricane Jeffrey, which made landfall yesterday, is already shaping up to be among the most destructive tropical storms to have ever hit Florida. The state has already sustained an estimated $600,000 in property damage and at least 10 casualties just 32 hours after initial impact. As was suspected when Jeffrey was forming in

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In the Lies of the Law

Can I Speak Freely, Opinion / Myles Walker

In the United States, as in many other countries, it is a customary practice for elected officials and other authority figures to lie. Two very relevant peddlers of lies in the country are politicians at all levels and the police. Politicians lie and tell half-truths with such frequency that many of us simply expect them

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Fake News: Tyler Singleton

Entertainment, Fake News / Myles Walker

When asked what the chant meant, New Haven mother of four Danielle Richardson said that she was “sickened” by the way the news and local authorities sought to “demonize” Singleton. “Tyler is a child,” she said, “and I have children of my own. They like guns, they like killing, they like to have a

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Conner O\’Malley, Andrew Callaghan, and the Surreal

Entertainment / Myles Walker

It can be difficult to process or even believe many of the things happening in the world today, and particularly the things happening in the United States. Odds are that you have some idea of what I mean if you watched the recent presidential debate. You likely know exactly what I mean if you regularly

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Why The Right Is White, and Vice Versa

News & Politics, Opinion / Myles Walker

Following the President’s defense of Confederate flags and military bases named for Confederate generals, his open criticism of organizations supporting the banning of the flag, and his latest jingoistic venture, claims of “left-wing indoctrination” in schools that teach the history of slavery and systemic racism, preferring instead his newly formulated initiative for “patriotic education” and

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The Matador and His Cape

News & Politics / Myles Walker

In our country, the man in power has comically made bulls of so many of us. Years of his deception and iniquity have left a major section of the American population on edge, constantly and fretfully waiting for the next shoe to drop, though we have long since lost count of dropped shoes. His misdeeds

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Grosso Announcement Opens At-Large Floodgates

Around The City, News & Politics / Myles Walker

At-Large Councilmember David Grosso announced earlier this year that he would not be running for reelection to the Council. This opened the floodgates for prospective candidates vying for his seat, whose numbers now surpass twenty. In concordance with the District’s “Home Rule Charter,” two of the four At-Large Council seats must be occupied by Councilmembers

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On the Leech – Jessica A. Krug

Can I Speak Freely, Opinion / Myles Walker

Fearing that her dishonesty would soon come to light, a white history professor at George Washington University, Jessica A. Krug, recently revealed that she had pretended to be Black for nearly all of her adult life. The story drew several comparisons to the case of former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal, and, strangely, another GWU

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Council Votes to Defund MPD

MPD, News & Politics / Myles Walker

In the wake of gun violence and police brutality being as obvious and perhaps more openly contested than any other time in recent memory, the DC Council has been hard at work in their efforts to reduce the volume of both. The Council made significant strides toward police reform in June, beginning just a week

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