Dec 30, 2020Dust Off the Shackles Of Elitism By All Means But (Hashtag)#BlackExcellence Stays.White mediocrity has not gotten us anywhere but to ruins, so how then does Black mediocrity sound like a good idea? — The fractured global society in which we live, owes many of its fissures to inadequate, and malicious information processing of biological variation. We know a considerable amount about the ‘melanocyte’ (bearing a typically pretentious multisyllabic scientific name) a cell that produces melanin. …Equality6 min read
Published in Human Parts·Sep 7, 2020Member-onlyBlackness Is Not a Monolith, But It Is a Collective ConsciousnessI don’t share a history of enslavement with Black Americans — but what we do share transcends oceans and generations — “Story, story, time, time.” The echoes of my childhood reverberate in my mind, reminding me of when I would sit with my African Giant of an aunt as she retold Urhobo folklore to wide-eyed Black children in 1990s Britain. It was different from what we were used to in our…Black Lives Matter7 min read
