Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Racism, disappearing jobs, mass incarceration, bad public policy, and economic abandonment have done tremendous damage - but personal irresponsibility has collected a paycheck from the same wrecking company.
Considering the parlous, incendiary time we are living in, Black America should not belong exclusively to the loudest voices standing inside it. "Whenever you find yourself…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
It’s more specific: Black public figures who use their personal success as bleach for institutional racism - men who walk through doors kicked open by Black struggle and then help White power install new locks behind them.
The once-vitriolic vulgarity, “nigger”, has been unintentionally transformed into something almost ridiculous - not because its bloody history has disappeared, but because America has wrapped the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
The ruling class has run this hustle for centuries: distribute counterfeit superiority downward and real money upward.
I open this piece for those WASP European-Americans who seem confused about “who” and “what” they are; You do not need Good Ol’ Boy overalls, a…
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