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PSA: Doers of Anti-racism work need to know it comes with getting checked.

Please if you’re talking about a PoC, do not call their challenging you on racism being woke. It implies they had to be awakened to a problem they have always lived. No amount of reading can stand up to their lived experience. This is for everyone, whether you lean left…

Anti Racism

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PSA: Doers of Anti-racism work need to know it comes with getting checked.
PSA: Doers of Anti-racism work need to know it comes with getting checked.

Sep 14, 2021

Feeling like Rip Van Winkle

I miss community and authentic friendship. I feel like my friendships are transactional or extremely limited. If I’m not fulfilling a need I feel easily dismissed. I’m stuck in my small bubble. Since people don’t have to see me face to face they don’t have any accountability to our friendship…

Depression

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Feeling like Rip Van Winkle
Feeling like Rip Van Winkle

Feb 1, 2021

Black History Taught me to Read

When I was going from kindergarten to first grade I switched schools. I was going from an inner-city school to the best elementary school in the city. I was living in a trailer with my mom, two sisters, my aunt and her three kids. My new classmates lived in gated…

Black History

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Black History Taught me to Read
Black History Taught me to Read

Dec 9, 2020

Cries of Voter Fraud are Rooted in Racism

Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia have large Black communities. Many people like Stacy Abrams and organizations have worked tirelessly for many years to ensure Black turned out to vote. Finally this year many factors helped that come to fruition. The many unjustified deaths of Black people, and the tapes that…

Voter Suppression

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Cries of Voter Fraud are Rooted in Racism
Cries of Voter Fraud are Rooted in Racism

Oct 29, 2020

The Invisible Divide

It is said perception is reality. So what reality am I presenting? How about you? If you pride yourself on being a caring person, do your actions speak it into truth? When you someone hurting does your heart break even if you can’t relate? There is this invisible divide that…

Race

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The Invisible Divide
The Invisible Divide

May 30, 2020

Another day in the life of a Black man

Mark the date, May 30 2020. Today is the day many little black boys and girls will ask for the first time why do they hate us? The day comes for us all that look like me. It’s a day parents try to shield us from. In the age of…

Racism

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Another day in the life of a Black man
Another day in the life of a Black man
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