2020. It has become abundantly clear that we now live in an era in which false equivocations have become the norm, and people feel unusually comfortable casting negative judgements upon the ways in which complete strangers spend their time, energy, and money. We see it time and time again… With…

I’d like to tell you a story. Well, a series of stories with one common thread. Visualize these stories and the people in them as you read. Imagine a 12 year-old boy, murdered in a park by police for playing with a toy pellet gun. Imagine a 5 year-old boy…

Why We Shouldn’t Measure Our Success in Terms of Our Relative Proximity to White People Let’s talk Respectability Politics. At its core, it is a system of belief based upon the premise that teaching black people to meet white cultural standards is the primary way to improve black life. White…

Dehumanization is NOT a point-of-view. It describes the act of the “denial of humanness” from an individual — or more often — from a larger group of people. WHAT EXACTLY IS DEHUMANIZATION? To begin, it occurs in three main forms: Animalistic, Mechanistic and Adversarial. Animalistic dehumanization occurs when a group…

Shouting “All Lives Matter” is an attempt to erase the historical and current institutionalized white supremacy that leaves black people dead in the street every single day. …

I will never identify as a peaceful protestor. Here’s why: The emphasis on naming our protests as “peaceful” is steeped in respectability politics, and completely contradictory to the reasons for the current civil unrest. The very essence of protest is objection and disruption. Organizers & participants: Stop going out of…

Why the Era of Social Media Will Never Let Kobe — Or Any Other Public Figure — Rest In Peace Let me start by saying that I don’t consider myself a fan or consumer of professional basketball. That said, it’s almost impossible to not be familiar with a larger-than-life figure such as Kobe Bryant. Widely considered as one of the greatest to have ever played the game, his sudden and…

Dear [Some] Black People: Let’s get straight to the point. The reason why you believe that all of black folks’ time should be spent laboring, is because you’ve internalized myths about blackness which began during slavery. Do you ask white people why they’re standing in line for pumpkin spice lattes…