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…
Category: Anti-Black Racism
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 