I have watched enough crime and medical shows
to know what is about to happen to my cousin’s body, and to the house where the party was thrown. To the witnesses, depending on how much the local police care about another young Black man shot in the...
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You may not like me because I’m an outspoken Black woman who speaks truth to power & “always makes it about race” but I still love you. I know you think you’re a special snowflake who “isn’t like...
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At the heart of our generation’s ambivalence about the f-word [feminism] is black women’s historic tendency to blindly defend any black man who seems to be under attack from white folks (men, women,...
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…the magic of white supremacy is that its presence is obscured by the focus on race. When a black teenager is unfairly profiled by police, we say it’s “because of the color of his skin,” which—as a...
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