While scrolling on my Facebook timeline, I came across a post that asked: \”Can Black People Be Racist?\”. I immediately took to the comments that were filled with dictionary definitions of the word \”racist\” and white people who shared stories of how they too were victims of racism by non-white people. Quite frankly, I found […]
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I\’m baffled how brandishing an AR-15 assault rifle, waving a rebel, Nazi, or Don\’t Tread on Me flag while wearing a joker mask does anything to help end the coronavirus epidemic. In fact, it highlights the blind, Zombie-esque, loyalty that led to Jonestown, Waco, and Oklahoma City. Whenever people get so blinded by their own
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Take a moment to think about the many places you drive or walk to in the typical week. Most people go to work, the grocery store, the gym, restaurants, and a couple other places in any given week. Though few know it, their image is captured while driving and walking to and from each of
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In an interview at the 2017 Emmy Awards, Insecure writer, creator, and lead actress Issa Rae declared that she was \”rooting for anybody black\” to take home an award that night. Her comments resonated with a wave of Black creatives who were just starting to see their work break into the mainstream of TV and
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This past January, Oprah Winfrey announced American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins to be her latest Oprah\’s Book Club pick. The book is centered on the treacherous journey a mother and her son must make across the Mexican border into the States, escaping the clutches of a drug cartel. Winfrey praised Cummins, a white woman, for
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When the images of thousands of people suffering outside the New Orleans Superdome and blanket-draped bodies of those who had succumbed to the heat and lack of resources were burning themselves into the American psyche – in stepped Lt. General Russel L. Honoré. The images of General Honoré commanding the New Orleans National Guard to
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In the midst of disinformation campaigns and Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, the D.C Board of Elections managed to provide its own disinformation campaign. Despite the fact that the correct dates are now emblazoned in red on their website, they have yet to disclose how no one caught this mistake. Although its not
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Lately, I am reminded of the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities. It starts off with the well-known line “ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, …” That’s the impression I was left with after
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Anyone that watched that farce last week called an impeachment shouldn\’t continue to wonder why the criminal justice system has been broken for so long. The hearings made it clear what the poor and people of color have known all their lives – the system is rigged towards those with power, wealth, and influence. In
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