Since the murder of a certain Christian Nationalist White Supremacist public figure, people across the political and social ideological spectrum have been screaming at those of us who don’t care, aren’t showing enough empathy (although that certain someone didn’t believe empathy was a real thing), and are reminding folx of the hateful bigoted vitriol he…
Category: Anti-Black Racism
I Had Fifteen Writing Ideas Today…More or Less
(I’m challenging myself to write daily starting now, 7/30/2025)
Let’s Stop the Fuckery
(I’m challenging myself to write daily starting now, 7/29/2025) If we are the kind of friends where I won’t come to your home because of the company you keep, I’m not inviting you into my home. My home is my inner sanctum. It is where I recharge and protect myself from the energies of the…
Have They No Shame? No…No, They Do Not. They Never Have
So, the next time you think, “oh my god, how could they”, “they would never”, or “have they no shame”, remember this tale and realize, they don’t care, they absolutely would and have, and no they do not.
Everything Begins With African Descendants of Slavery: Freedom, Civil Rights, and Bodily Autonomy
[January 22, 2025 – Cross published on Substack and Grouchy in Paradise] So, that sham of an inauguration happened. That bloated rotting heap of human excrement was once again sworn into the highest position in the land. As much as I want to ignore the spectacle of this, as much as I want to starve…
My 2024 Election Reflections
Photo by Michael Marais on Unsplash I learned in 2016 that I couldn’t trust most white folx. While I’ve been digging in, doing the work, trying to coalition build and help people come to terms with their anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and racism, I learned about the depths of anti-Blackness in many other people of color communities: Asians, Hispanic,…
Breaking Down the White Supremacist System That Murdered Tyre Nichols
This one hurts. For myriad reasons. And ya KNOW the video is bad when people kept saying please keep it peaceful before the release of the video. Let’s get into it. 1) Tyre Nichols should still be walking this Earth. That is first and foremost. He was brutally murdered over a traffic infraction. A traffic infraction…
Belated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Post
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, things look bleak, his legacy and life’s work threatened. It feels dystopian, foreboding, and surreal. 1) Here we sit in the midst of a global pandemic that has killed over 800,000 people domestically and more than 5 million people globally. In this country, far too many workers have…
Resources About Anti-Black Racism
In so many ways, to understand what anti-Black racism is requires one to dig into the true unapologetic and uncensored history of this country (the U.S.) and the wider world. Anti-Black racism is global. It is colorism. It is the ways in which Black people the world over have been subjugated and abused by people…
Grouchy in Paradise 