Hi Everyone! So with a new year comes new adventure. I am writing to formally announce my podcast: Blackness. Under-Represented. Listen to the trailer here: https://anchor.fm/blacknessunderrep Blackness. Under-Represented will include episodes eight minutes or less that provide insight into happenings relevant to black people and black culture. This announcement is not a farewell to blogging;…
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Black Lives Matter: The Neo Liberal Wears Black
“A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.”— James Baldwin They were there when we needed them. They appeared amidst black bodies slain to no consequence relegated to the silence of white supremacy. But that is too often the way of the optic, isn’t it? To gift sight to…
The Aftertaste of Anti-black Assassination
It’s hard to put my feelings into words. To describe how it feels to live in a world where a wall receives more justice than a black woman who took what would become her last breaths in what the DA refuses to acknowledge as a murder. The grief is a heavy load that weighs down…
A Word on Blackness and “Violence”
I suppose the African in America has always had an adversarial relationship with the word violence. To consider this word and how it functions concerning the black community, I recall an interview Angela Davis did in prison where she was asked about violence, specifically, whether she approved of it. To this inquiry, she recalled a…
Cardi B, Candace Owens, and Black Censure
The contemporary climate, which meditates on the commander and chief’s overt racism, remains largely oblivious to the subtle forms of racism engendered in response. By the previous statement, I speak directly to those who have used this time of overt racial tension to castigate the original people of color. This praxis is currently manifested in…
Racism and Deflection in an Anti-Black America
Like many Americans, I, she who descended from the abducted Africans, watched most of Biden’s Pittsburgh speech yesterday. His words, juxtaposed the Jacob Blake shooting with “rioting” and violence, a pairing synonymous to following the phrase “black lives matter” with “all lives matter.” The speech betrayed Biden as the coward he is, and underscored why…
A Canonized King: Another Perspective on the 2020 March on Washington
The March on Washington occurred on the heels of a red summer and overtly racist Republican National Convention acting as a platform for the masses to express their frustration with systemic forces. The 2020 March on Washington, held on the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder marks the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s…
The Racist’s National Convention, A Black Female Perspective
The Republican National Convention could not have opted for a more appropriate backdrop. The Convention aired hours after a black man, Jacob Blake, was critically wounded by police, as many continued to protest Trump’s Law and Order America, as Hurricane Laura rendered her wet wrath throughout numerous states in the nation, and as the Corona…
Policing and American Personhood
On the second night of the Republican National Convention, Abby Johnson of Planned Parenthood provided a graphic description of abortion to pull on the heartstrings and taunt the consciousness of a conscious-less audience. She preceded this anecdote by disclosing Planned Parenthood’s racist origins. Johnson’s speech was undoubtedly supposed to be moving, however, it illuminated the…
The Black Agenda Challenge: A Black Manifesto
“Up Up you mighty race, accomplish what you will” Marcus Garvey
Whispers of a Womanist 