Category: Sharp n’ Blunt

Trump was not on November’s ballot, but the Congress capable of restraining him certainly was. Who will tell the man in the White House, No, Mr. President, you cannot do that?

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.

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 ruling class has run this hustle for centuries: distribute counterfeit superiority downward and real money upward.

You cannot keep feeding a movement I consider overtly hostile to my humanity and act wounded because I don’t find you charming and precious.

You cannot keep asking Black women to save the house while reminding them to use the service entrance.

Motown delivered Black performers into White America’s living room with such elegance that racism had to tap its foot before remembering it was supposed to object.

Had Obama taken home a classified White House lunch menu, federal agents would have descended upon his property in armored vehicles.

If one man cannot eat and another man has $25 million, the problem is not envy, laziness, grit, prayer, branding, or financial literacy. The problem is a nation so hypnotized by money that it calls a starving man bitter for noticing the Texas roadhouse.

Their presence was not random theater. It was a message, polished in menace and wrapped in cowardice: we are here, we are organized, we are not afraid, and we believe this country belongs to us by blood title.