Live At The Barbeque: Why Do Black Folks Never Get Invited To Y’All’s Functions?

Garrick McFadden
Momentum
Published in
9 min readMay 3

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“My thoughts react, like Steven Spielberg’s
Poetry attacks, paragraphs punch hard” — Live At The Barbeque by Main Source verse by Nas.

The most prized invitation in our society is an invitation to the cookout. It is the ultimate clout…

Garrick McFadden
Momentum

I am a civil-rights attorney. I write about #whiteness, #racism, #hiphop, policing & politics.