Glenn’s article can be read here. Imagine having the entire world shaped to your singular and specific benefit so comprehensively that there was never a time or place in the last millennium in which you would have been ostracized or denied privileges because you yourself are the picture of privilege. Now imagine the world beginning […]
Like begets like, and the progenitor of the recent violence at the United States Capitol building, though some may hesitate to admit it, was the ongoing fervor and volume of the country’s antiracist demonstrations. It should be obvious that this is not to say that antiracist protests, no matter how raucous they have gotten, are
As the tears ran down my face my heart sunk to my stomach. No, they were not so much tears of fear, but more of disgust, concern, and frustration! What the world saw taking place on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, many are calling insurrection, revolt, riot, and uprising chaos. For me, it\’s all of these
When discussing race relations with peers and acquaintances, I sometimes raise the question of whether there is hope for anything resembling a “post-racial” future in the United States or, more appropriately, if racism and the afterlife of American slavery will ever cease to be so influential to the contemporary state of affairs. Admittedly, I have
Lizzo, another Black woman who can’t seem to catch a break from the media. The “Juice,” singer has shared on social media via Tik Tok that she was on a 10-day smoothie cleanse. The chaotic reaction caused many people, especially white women, to feel as if she fell into diet culture. Body Positivity Lizzo has
In a recent interview that you could originally only watch on Snapchat, of all places, Former President Barack Obama doubled down on earlier comments he made that expressed his disdain for the phrase “defund the police.” In his words, “you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less
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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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With the presidential election just days away there is plenty of churn happening on both sides of the spectrum. Everyone is rallying to their perspective corners and trying to find any piece of solace that assures them their candidate is going to win. Some have viewed the past three plus years as an anomaly. Others
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
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
