Black Women Do Not Exist To Save You Admittedly, I have said Trust Black Women a million times because as a Black woman, I believe we hold the solutions to so many problems in the world. However, over time the mood and meaning of this hashtag started […]
Dear Colin Kaepernick:All You Had To Do Was Play The Game, Boy. All you had to do was throw the ball, boy. We concealed this auction block well, didn’t we, boy? You didn’t know you were on sale, boy? Didn’t we tell you to just run, boy? […]
Let’s get this out at this outset of this blog, Omarosa, you’re gonna get this draggin’. And you deserve it. However there is an opportunity for you to redeem yourself.
In a narrow win, Doug Jones has won the Senate race in Alabama. And by narrow, I mean less than 50,000 votes. So, before any of us break our arm off to pat ourselves on the back, remind yourself that this was a race between a man that […]
In Peak Level Whiteness, Donald Trump is insisting on attending the opening of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi although many have called on him not to participate. U.S. Representative and Civil Rights icon, John Lewis, has said that he will […]
In November of 2015, I decided to quit my job of 16 years as an administrative assistant. I remember as I was exiting my office after turning in my keys and leaving a manual for the new executive assistant, I turned and looked at the office and took […]
Caricature – car·i·ca·ture ˈkerikəCHər,ˈkerikəˌCHo͝or/ noun a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. Several months ago, I remember I was standing at my closet looking for something to wear to […]
Recently Nnedi Okorafor posted on Twitter about racists telling her to go back to Africa. Dear racists on Twitter (and elsewhere), telling me to “go back to Africa” is not an insult. 🙄 — Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi) November 26, 2017 My response was the following: Right! And […]
I am going to present this conversation as much as I can in its entirety, periodically drop in commentary and then follow up. What’s over? People knew he was when they voted for him and had no problem with it. When someone shows you who they are, believe […]
*This blog contains spoilers about Mudbound.* Netflix released its feature film Mudbound a story of two men, Ronsel and Jamie, who have both returned home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi. Ronsel is the son of Hap and Florence, a Black family […]
