Category: Represent Our Resistance

Why should we be made to vote for yet another moderate, corporate president who will be beholden to the 1% and the economically poor white Americans?

What I didn’t know back when I was a girl watching the Mercury flights, as well as a the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle flights, what most Americans in the era of legalized racial segregation wouldn’t have suspected is that an African American woman was there—not in the still racially segregated and all-male control room at NASA, no. Katherine Johnson is there.

What happened to the economically poor and working class under Bloomberg? Well, you know, Pay no attention to that image of Bloomberg, the Republican Mayor of New York with his foot on the necks of black people.

At the premiere of Price’s Symphony No. 1, George Gershwin is in the audience, and that premiere takes place at the World’s Fair, in 1933. This symphony by an African American woman is “without precedent” at the time.

The terror of racism didn’t start with Trump; it never ended in 1865. It certainly didn’t become post with Barack Obama. But as leader of the nation, Trump’s unapologetic display of racism is allowed to flourish openly at a time when the racial demographics are reeking havoc in the minds of white Americans.

Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge,” uttered by none other than a descendant of Italians and Irish, the Principle Deputy Director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli.

The image of the black church singing and preaching is salable whereas the image of a black community that leans socialist threatens the interests of the powerful—no matter how corrupt, how vile and mean-spirited.

The right to property meant something different for a people who had once been property. To own meant being a human being. African Americans faced obstacles to the purchase of a home—until the 1970s.

on the floor of any Amazon warehouse these days, employees watch as Bezos rises, ascends into the ether, for all practical purposes, Bezos doesn’t live on the ground on which they walk.

What is not recognized in American society or in our educational institutions is just how few white professors, with PhD.’s, holding tenured positions are familiar with narratives written by the majority of the world’s humanity.