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[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Jul 12, 2016

Chi will likely not be allowed to wear ripped clothing. He will not be allowed to sag his pants. He will not dye his hair. We will carefully guide what he wears and how he presents h...

Please Remember My Black Son

Matt Stauffer

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I completely understand what you are saying here, as I have a ten-year-old brother who almost always has his shirt tucked in and wears a belt, thanks to my mother’s careful guidance. However, I just wanted to evoke a token we have hopefully gleaned by now. That is to say, no matter how respectable, a black body seems to be little more than that in…

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[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Jul 31, 2016

The cost of white privilege is cultural homogenization, which is why we have lumped such a large number of diverse people from different countries under the heading “white.”

Why I am Skeptical of White Liberals in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Emma Lindsay

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They lumped themselves together when they first got here.

We didn’t do anything.

They banded together as a superior group as compared to the Native Americans that they encountered upon arrival as well as the Africans that they shipped to North America, in order to justify the obvious contradictions…

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Jul 13, 2016

What Woke Feels Like

My left leg shook violently as I waited for it to be over. Anger and disbelief swirled around in my cheeks and my chest, and the blood within them reached its boiling point. The ever-present pounding in my ears grew more audible; the drummer in my chest had upped the tempo and exchanged his…

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Aug 23, 2016

… and an investigation is underway

by: Onyeka C. Arah

I pray I don’t outlive my son,

If I’m blessed enough to have one

I’m just fifteen, so no son yet

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Jul 16, 2016

We Don’t Cry Pretty

White tears must fall in perfect droplets. They’re such a spectacle, a sight to behold and bow down at the sight of. So-called Blind Justice, or at least America’s twisted version of it, is a proud slave to the pesky moths that are the white man’s fluttering eyelids. We always talk about this…

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Oct 8, 2016

There’s a monster on the loose.

Trump Continually Reveals Himself as Morally Bankrupt, and the US has…

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Jun 7, 2017

We Finally Made it to Mars

And We Made a “Transcendent Discovery”

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Apr 27, 2018

Never not left unwritten

by Onyeka C. Arah

Sometimes late, but always a letter

Better to write than be left unremembered

Never no words in press or prose

[0]nyeka. in Open Issue

Sep 24, 2016

People are dying. It’s not right. It’s not fair. So many thoughts. Clear the air. The flag’s fluke. We have proof. Bullets before questions. Bodies before answers. This is wrong. Keith Lamont Scott. One of many. Reduced to skin. He lives on. Hate won’t win. Kneel with Colin. Let them know. Black Lives Matter.

Onyeka C. Arah. Not a blogger. Just the truth. ❤❤❤.

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