True Social Justice & Racial Equity Is Hard Work
re: domestic violence (trigger warning) Why I am terrified: Black folks have been in an abusive: physically, mentally, and emotional relationship with America for 400 years, and Donald Trump, specifically, for 4 years. If you know anything about domestic violence, you know why we, well, me (I can’t speak for […]
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Audre Lorde Dear Black Students: I understand how frustrating it must be to see all the anti-Blackness in the world now and feel unprepared with the tools you need to fight racism in schools. Schools are normally failing Black kids, so […]
White people: yes, we technically stole, looted, maimed, murdered, and exploited millions of African and Native Americans to establish the United States of America. And, yes, technically the folks who did the stealing, looting, murder, and exploitation, wrote the constitution and our American system of laws. And, yes, all of […]
Written July 3rd, 2016 I love my family. We are an eclectic mix of folks. Mostly good, sometimes bad, with a few really bad apples thrown in. But, flaws and all, I unapologetically, unconditionally love my family. Is there stuff we need to work on? Yes. Am I still holding […]
Dear Black (Brown) folks: FIVE beautiful children have been murdered by gun violence in the last two weeks in Chicago. Rightfully, everyone wants “justice” and for someone to turn in the shooter. The thing that is the hardest for Black folks, is to humanize criminals. We have drunk the kool-aid […]
To my White friends: Don’t tell me how you feel about racism. Tell me what you are going to do to stop racism. I know racism is gross. I know racism is evil. I know racism is horrific. But what I don’t know is… what are YOU GOING TO DO […]
This weekend over 100 people were shot in Chicago. And, of course, many folks, including Black folks are angry and want vengeance and punishment of the shooters. They are also including them as enemies to Black folks. But the shooters are victims of racism and perpetrators of racism. A […]
UNFILTERED RANT: STOP DRINKING THE KOOLAID! re: the 100 shootings in Chicago this weekend… There are a lot of ways that people die. There are also lots of ways that people kill themselves. One of the more popular suicide methods, (they bring it up a lot on crime shows like, […]
A letter of apology to my stomach: Today, I started my regular self-hate against you, my stomach, as I tried, and failed, to fit into my shorts from last summer. As I was berating you verbally, by calling you “gross, fat stomach,” I noticed that my arms were circled around, […]
An Inconvenient Truth: There is Racism and White Supremacy in NPOs, too If you are giving money to organizations to help Black folks and support Black liberation; that isn’t run by Black folks, you are not doing anti-racist work. Racism isn’t solved by funding nonprofit organizations that are run and […]