Achieving equality feels hopeless most days because so many people are so unwilling to invest in educating themselves about racism. Racism is the primary driver of inequality in America. Understanding racism is the only way we can do the work of making things more fair, and I’m all for that. It’s one reason I write so much about race. I’m vested anti-racism education because I benefit from it even the road is slow going. There aren’t many good resources that describe racism using first-hand accounts and experiences through the eye of victims.

Often, when we writers talk about racism and inequality, there is no dictionary or definitions describing what we are referring to in our pieces to help novice anti-racists understand what we mean. With anti-racism, it’s not always good for allies to lean on other own understanding. Their understanding (or lack of understanding) about racism is part of the problem. White anti-racists often have a very limited definition in their minds of what racism is. For victims, their definitions and interpretations of what we experience daily don’t compare. Any effort to talk about it is like striking a match. …

The Incivility of Line Jumping

I don’t know anyone who likes folks who jump the line. I hate it. If I’m standing in line waiting my turn for anything and someone cuts in front of me, my first reaction is to immediately redirect them to where the line ends. My fucking time is valuable and I don’t believe in cutting lines. It’s disrespectful. People bold enough and inconsiderate enough to jump lines are saying they don’t care about it. It’s the ultimate display of selfishness in front of strangers. People who jump lines are snatching unearned privilege at the expense of others.

I hate line jumpers, and I’m always disappointed in the people who tolerate and condone line jumpers. The folks allowing people to jump lines are co-conspirators to disorder. I view line jumping as a form of uncivil disobedience. It’s a form of disrespect to those of us waiting in line with no consideration given for our time. …

I have never been so happy to see someone leave in all my life. This nightmare of Donald J. Trump’s presidency is over. I want to thank all my friends abroad who have shook their heads in bewilderment. Thank you to all of you who sympathized with us as we struggled to make sense of people could hate everything America could stand for. Thank you for all your thoughts, prayers. We’ve fought hard to make this day happen.

Bless all of Black folks and People of Color who endured. We made it ya’ll. Trump tried to kill us, yet we live. You have something to be happy about. …

I’m tired of White people misquoting Dr. King’s speeches. I wish they’d keep them out of their mouths. His dream is our dream, and the number one obstacle to achieving the dream are White people and their co-conspirators, the White man’s non-White anti-Black allies.

Black folks are tired of waiting. We’re tired of imagining possibilities. African Americans are tired of hoping. I know I’m tired of dreaming.

I’m tired of dreaming today, dreaming that one-day White people will get tired of racism, and stop being racist, specifically anti-Black.

I’m tired of dreaming of the day White people will understand Dr. King didn’t die for our freedom, but rather Dr. King was assassinated by a White man in the middle of his fight. White men always kill our good Black men trying to liberate their people. …

I read an outstanding piece written by Sam McKenzie Jr’s a few days ago detailing how Whiteness is undemocratic, which gets right to the crux of Black people’s issue with America and the United Kingdom post-Western colonialism. Both sovereign states claim to be democratic, but both systems have been created and used to maintain institutions and hierarchies catering to White people, to sustain whiteness. Everything about Whiteness is bad for everyone else except White people. You cannot have a civil society with White identities because it requires everything and everyone non-White to submit to it or be oppressed.

Whiteness is incompatible with democracy, and it should be abolished here in the United States and abroad. The only thing Whiteness offers non-White folks is hard times. I want it to end. Abolish Whiteness. …

Racists Are Angry With Us

Most Black people know what I’m about to say, especially if you live in the South, but I’m sure there are plenty of you who have no clue about White America’s history of White mobs and White rage. Many people will be trying to redirect you to the Holocaust, but America has it’s own violent history of genocide and killing citizens, that’s lasted far longer than the Holocaust did. White violence towards Blacks has never ended.

While many other once Brown groups have been grandfathered into Whiteness, Black people have never had such fortunes. Black people have been the permanent underclass of this nation, and White folks plan on keeping us that way by hook or by crook. We voted and resisted. …

America Is In Shambles

The nation’s Capital Building was breached this week, and no one Black is surprised. Whiteness’ insatiable appetite for violence combined with White people’s unwillingness to see themselves for who they truly are has led to the most humiliating breach of the nation’s capital in America history. It’s embarrassing. Our allies are looking at us as if we’re insane. The world feels sorry for us.

So many White people were duped by a racist con man and compromised government officials not once, but twice. The result of the con are impossible to comprehend.

I wasn’t shocked at the insurrection this past Wednesday, because this kind of rebellion has been happening in America since Black folks were freed from slavery. Before I move on, let me make one thing clear. The White mob that ascended upon the nation’s Capital Building held a race riot. Yes, it was insurrection, but it was also a race riot. A large subset of White people do not want Black people, Jewish people, Hispanics, and other Brown folks to have power. If the government isn’t white enough or when things appear to be shifting away from centering Whiteness, White men have always gathered to violently overthrow minorities to take over with absolutely no punishment from the federal and state governments. …

By now, you’ve all heard about the disgraceful 2021 insurrection that happened in the nation’s capital on January 6th. Aggrieved White racists stirred up by the worst damned President in history stormed the Capital Building as Congress was attempting to certify the national election, making Joe Biden the President-Elect of the United States and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris. Trump’s stoking White Supremacists led to violence most White people haven’t seen in their lifetimes, especially not from White people. White Supremacists have brought shame unto the United States, one of the biggest advocates of democracy in the world.

With our national shame comes self-reflection. How did we get here to being a third-world, shithole nation? With self reflection for some comes the need to apologize. …