I’m tired of the games being played out here — I’m seeing way too many Black folks, particularly Black men, putting on the cape for Joe Rogan and defending him for the anti-Black comments he made on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. Now I already went into detail on the situation and why he became such a trending topic…

We call it “BAM” today — As a poet, I am mostly influenced by a period of African American literature known as “The Black Arts Movement.” I embrace all kinds of poetry and poetic influences stylistically and politically, but today, decades into writing poetry, “BAM” as it is now called, continues to help me find my…

This is a reminder that no party has a premium on racism. (Trigger Warning: this post contains a tweet that discusses sexual assault). Many of us have been shaken by the recent news via a leaked document, that the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to take on and possibly strike…

I was seventeen years old the second time someone pointed a loaded gun at my face. Of course, it was the police, of course I hadn’t broken any laws or even committed a misdemeanor, of course it was because my skin is black. Of course, it was because I was…

Assimilation is a tool of white supremacy which oftentimes uses non-white people to promote white power structures — The idea of assimilation in the United States dates back to the mid-eighteenth century. At the time Benjamin Franklin and others were alarmed about the growth of the German population in Pennsylvania. In an effort to “anglicize” or “anglify” the Germans, Franklin partnered with William Smith and founded the Society…

It’s a little early to write a eulogy for Black Twitter — Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, is attempting to secure a deal to buy Twitter for 44 billion dollars. When the news hit, many users felt dread in the pit of their stomachs. Because of Musk’s all-or-nothing approach to free speech, many fear his takeover will lead to…

Progressives also need to address their biases — Many of us White fighters for social justice spend so much time combatting racism that we forget to reflect on our own biases, microaggressions, voting decisions and thoughts. We ignore how we also have miles to go to become more evolved humans. …

They think tokenism is poetic justice, and it’s not — Throughout American history, White people have often taken great pleasure in using Black people as political props to promote racist policies. In Fredrick Douglass’s memoir, The Myth of the Happy Slave, he pushed back against the vicious lie that Black people enjoyed life as slaves. White enslavers insisted Black people…

The truth about CRT and the ABCs. — If you’re anything like me — or like most human beings — the perfect comeback almost always seems to arrive hours or days or even weeks too late. Someone catches you off guard with an unfathomable zinger, and although you have the perfect retort tucked away somewhere in the recesses…