Category: Color of Law

White Americans often may not feel as if they have to worry about talking to their children about such matters. Parents of color, however, don’t have that luxury.

In African spirituality, and many indigenous cultures, the ancestors are among us and connected to us, part of the living and spiritual realms.

If Black leaders are not improving the material conditions of their people, they are worthless. Vibes are not enough and will not put food on the table.

Israel is justice for Jews, and redemption from the ashes of the Holocaust. Jews were most certainly the victims of Nazi Germany, but they are not the victims now in Israel.

It seems that the state never separated itself from its deadly past of racial violence and racially violent laws.

Fascists appeal to a frustrated middle class, and capitalize on an economic crisis or a sense of humiliation or victimhood.

Facing threats to their land from climate change, hurricanes and rising sea levels, Black folks in the Sea Islands and Lowcountry are hoodwinked and bamboozled by gentrification and corporate interlopers.

White Christian nationalists are exporting their American culture wars to Africa and getting people killed with "kill the gays" laws, and we see what they are doing.

In a nation in denial over systemic racism, freedom is elusive for the descendants of the enslaved.

Juneteenth wasn't just about celebrating freedom, but also about searching for lost loved ones and lifting each other up in hard times.