First, learn what racism is, and what it’s not. I need White people to understand that all White people are racist.
Admit it, and let’s move onto the business of repairing and healing the country. We can’t do it without you.
Yes my dears, all White people are racists. All. Of. Them.
Here is where you stop to cry, clutch your pearls, rant and rave aloud to tell me how wrong I am, and to tell me not all White people. I’m doing reverse racism (there’s no such thing as reverse racism), and you’re ready to do tit for tat…
The New Book “Fieldnotes On Allyship” Is A Great Tool To Help New Allies and Anti Racism Advocates On Their Journeys.
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…
But most are either too ignorant, too arrogant, and too self-absorbed to realize it.
Derek Chauvin’s murder trial isn’t just his trial for murdering George Floyd, it’s the trial of the century for White people in America too. All White people on trial, especially White men, and most White folks are too obvious and self-absorbed to realize it. Instead of dealing with the consequences that have led to the failed state we’re living in, White people have moved on to concoct their latest escape hatches, “anti-woke culture” bullshit, and “cancel culture crises.”
It’s the equivalent of race-baiting allegations, just more White fuckery sponsored by White fragility, except the magical powers of their bullshittery don’t…
The site is changing more and more each day making it harder for me to connect with my readers.
I just wanted to share with readers Medium is changing (again) and killing publications. All of them, there’s and even the ones they don’t own like our personal publications where we park all of our writing making it easier for readers to find the body of our work. If you search individual writers, you’ll find me and the rest of the readers you may follow, but if you’re looking for work we’ve written under any publication, including our own, you won’t be able to find them. As Medium retools, there will be more changes, likely daily.
It’s going to get…
Failing to recognize your oppression guarantees we will remain successfully oppressed.
If Black people want to be free, first you need to learn to see how you’re oppressed. There is a method to White madness and you need to understand it so you won’t fall prey. We are collectively oppressed because we collectively allow White Supremacy (our oppressor) to
- Allowing White people to tell you what’s good for you. Your oppressor is always going to try to tell you what’s good for you, especially where White losing power is concerned. That’s why White folks are so vested in advising Black people on how to vote.
- Choosing danger on the left in…
Thank you Mindy. It's very hard to stay here when the site doesn't even protect writers from plagiarism. It's very disheartening. I'll still post here, but not as much. Medium has shown they are committed to dismantling institutional and systemic racism. They'll continue suppressing our work until we leave.
That's the plan.
One Black Man’s Journey From Battlefields To Green Pastures
It Hasn’t Always Been Easy For Black People To Own And Keep Land
Post slavery, many Black people found empowerment in making a profit off of land they had once been forced to work for free. Into the 20th century, one in every seven farmers was Black and collectively held 16 million acres of land. But over the years, 98% of Black farmers would lose their land due to dealings with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other federal programs. At one point, Laws like the California Alien Land Law of 1913 prohibited people of color from owning land. To this day, people of color make up less than 4% of…
If you don’t understand White Supremacy, you can’t possibly report competently or objectively on race, and that’s a huge problem in America.
It’s Time For Most White Reporters To Admit They Are Racists
If you’re American and White (European descent, Anglo-Saxon, Caucasian, klan lovers, Nazi embraces, etc.), you were born into a racist society your forefathers and ancestors helped to craft specifically for your benefit. This world we live in has been specifically designed with you White people in mind. If you’re White and American, you’ve been molded and shaped by White Supremacy. You cannot escape, no matter how much you Sharon Osborne. White people have also helped to mold and shape how the world views non-White people. …
White America is incapable of giving justice to Black folks, so Black folks will be getting it for themselves.
Derek Chavin’s trial began this week, and it’s always shaping up to the like any other trial where White men killed Black ones. One tiny teardrop of hope is that the prosecutor of the case Mike Freeman was replaced by the State Attorney general at the request of several state Representatives and because a judge ruled previously his office’s sloppy work on the case. For a White man to say that about the White county prosecutor says something, maybe.
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The jury selection is going terrible. So far there are three White men, one Hispanic man, and…
America will never be the same after all we’ve been through.
After four years of a lying, racist president, White nationalism, the federal government intentionally trying to kill using Covid, Trump trying to steal the election, an insurrection, voter disenfranchisement, covering for corrupt cops, quarantining for an entire year, a failing economy, kids not going to school, and not being able to see or touch our loved ones, a lot of us are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It will take us a long time to forget the horrors of the last four years thanks to Donald J. Trump and his band of thieves in the Republican Party. …
