Category: Represent Our Resistance

The more I studied the situation,” Ida B. writes, “the more I was convinced that the Southerner had never gotten over his resentment that the Negro was no longer his plaything, his servant, and his source of income.”

The corporate bosses as well as the corporate advertisers are kept happy. Keep the American public sedated with the image of the “bad guy” within. It’s all so personal - Bourdain’s “demons,” his “dark side.” This justification of why he committed suicide plays well with commentators (and their corporate bosses) and guest appearance of experts on mental health (often linked with Big Pharma)

So many white Americans suffer from 'the most intolerable anxiety' whenever black Americans speak about identity. It’s this 'intolerable anxiety' that makes for the necessity of producing white landscapes - visible when whites in the United States declare their race more 'American' than any other race, certainly more than any 'immigrant' population.

Imagine the nightmare: On a balcony in Washington, DC, sits the Leader of the “free world”, flanked by his brothers, Kanye West and Ben Carson. All is well for these guys, drinking coffee “in the normal way.”

Before the Parkland school shooting on February 14, 2018, between January 4th and February 9th, to be exact, 17 school shootings occurred in the US. In the meantime, the firearms industry in the US, consisting of 464 producers of weapons and ammunition, generates $11 billion in revenues!

Women understand structural bias toward men (white men, in particular). Women recognize this institutionalization of gender bias in language. Women acknowledge the ways women have been trained/educated to believe in and therefore play the role of an abiding companion within a patriarchal narrative.

On the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s death, the national ceremonies honoring his memory - featuring the sanctimonious and reflections on the days leading up to Dr. King’s death - failed to see the elephant had long taken center stage.

In the long run, they already know I’m not likely to submit to a battery of chemo pills with side effects such as heart, kidney, and liver damage, to boot. They would be right to think that. Immunization treatment would be the way to go, but I don’t expect my doctor/insurance providers to agree.

the #MeToo Movement started years ago with Black women, and many women of color find the personal narrative useful in expressing what it means to be a woman of color in America. And that expression of the personal for women of color has always pointed to the public, the institutionalization of violence in this country.