True Social Justice & Racial Equity Is Hard Work
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
“Tell me, who I have to be. To get some reciprocity.” Lauryn Hill Anthony Clark, one of the best, most committed community leader, social justice leader, and all-around coalition builder, is running for Democrat Congressman of our IL-7th district. As someone who cares very much about social justice and racial […]
I woke up this morning to two stories dominating my news feed. First, the sudden death of the beloved Black congressman and justice fighter from Baltimore, Elijah Cummings. Second, enthusiastic support for the Chicago Teachers Union strike. I saw the face of their campaign, Stacy Davis Gates, fiercely handling the […]
The media is all over Cardi B for making a video with democratic socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. People who don’t know her are quick to dismiss her as an “uninformed, uneducated Black woman rapper.” But those of us who are Cardi fans know she has always been a history and […]
This week America celebrated the 99th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s passage, which granted women the right to vote. However, like much of American history, the words in our Constitution don’t reflect the reality of what actually happened. THE TRUTH IS THAT THE SUFFRAGETTES WERE RACIST, OPPORTUNISTIC AND THEY SOLD […]