The US population makes up only 4.4 percent of the world’s population, but 21 percent of all Covid-19 cases. But that shouldn’t be a surprise to us, no matter the false ideals of American Exceptionalism that have been forcefully driven down our throats. — The United States has had the worst response to the coronavirus pandemic in the entire world. Last Friday, the world saw its most positive reported Covid cases of all time — at least 350,000. Fifty-nine thousand of them came from the US or nearly 17 percent. The US population makes…

My Blackness put me in a position to been seen as inhuman — and my Americanness forced me to accept it — I last got my hair cut in March 2018, one and a half years before I first began my four-month stay in Vietnam. My hair is coarse and nappy. It’s untamed and sprawls out everywhere, but I like it that way because it lets me accept my Blackness in its…

If not me, then who? A 40-year-old White man? — When the video of Jacob Blake getting shot seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reached my timeline, I did what I usually do when Black trauma becomes a matter of mass consumption. I got angry. I shared a Twitter post and an Instagram story, then deleted both. What…