If you start practicing now, you can probably eliminate these words from your vocabulary by Black History Month — Statistically speaking, about 75% of White people don’t even have a Black friend, but on the off chance that you are one of the White people who do, I have a message for you from your (one) Black friend: Do better. In her New York Times bestselling book White Fragility…

It’s 2022. By now, most people have heard that when it comes to race, intentions don’t matter. But what if they do? Not in the I-had-good-intentions-so-you-can’t-call-me-on-my-actions type way — that’s not flying in 2022. As Jamie Utt told everyday feminism: “What we need to realize is that when it comes…

You’re not protecting your kids. You’re protecting your racism — “I wouldn’t feel comfortable showing that to my [younger] child.” a Eurodescendant woman tells me when I ask her to consider having her sons join a youth discussion of When They See Us. Her youngest is thirteen. She considers herself an ally. Yet when given the option, she can ‘protect’…

The real reason why none of your closest friends are Black — “Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has long been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species…Under…

An ode to estuaries, fjords and fountains When white women cry, Black men die, Black womxn get fired, White men heave a sigh. “Our cherished property is our solemn duty, We have to protect Karen, Nancy, and Judy.” They punish the chattel when we get unruly Don’t talk back to Karen And don’t piss off…

The FBI got some splainin’ to do. . . Reading Allison Gaines’ article, Do You Hate White People? reminded me of how uninformed the general public is about domestic terrorism in the United States. Allison’s article mentions “the growing threat of domestic terrorism” centered around “confronting white supremacy.” We don’t…

It was always going to end this way — Snitches get riches in Texas nowadays. The Lone Star state’s new anti-reproductive freedom act empowers friends, neighbors and co-workers to sue anyone that “induces…aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.” The actual person receiving the abortion can’t be sued. But the doctor who performed it, the would-be…

Reflecting on the end of an era I was dancing barefoot in the living room. School started in two days, so I was putting together outfits and giving my mother the obligatory annual back-to-school fashion show. Here I am, giving my best RuPaul to the tune of Everybody Dance Now…

In admiration of the unnamed woman with rollers from Cleveland Who all gon’ be there? You went to hear Martin speak with your rollers in tell me what kinda confidence you rolling in? …