Last week, much of the nation watched a white nationalist space employ the black optic for ulterior motives. A black woman received the inaugural vaccine as white officeholders looked-on. An obvious question is: why were the elected official not “elected” to take the vaccine first? The obvious answer is that after a year that underscored…
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Vaccine and the Black Contribution #firstthem
The white world went from overt outrage over George Floyd’s murder to an outpour of support and enthusiasm for president-elect Joe Biden, to Floyd as a nameless nominee for Time’s highest honor (eventually awarded to Biden and Kamala Harris). Another notable shift was from “vote like your lives depends on it” to “vaccinate” for the…
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…
Whispers of a Womanist 