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…
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Literacy, Critical Literacy, and Racial Literacy
(I’m challenging myself to write daily starting now, 8/7/2025) Disclaimers: First, I have been challenging myself to write daily. I fell off for a whole week. Back at it now. Secondarily, my writing for this challenge is largely stream of consciousness. This is my thinking, things I’m puzzling through, knowledge I am building for myself….
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…
I Owe Much of My Opportunities, Privilege, and Rights to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Those Who Struggled for Civil Rights
Growing up, Dr. King was frequently spoken of in my home. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 and I was born July 4, 1970, so his death in relation to my birth was probably at the front of my mom’s and grandma’s minds as I was the first mixed kid in the family. My…
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…
Reparations Now – 2020
Thinking about the Biden/Harris plan for Native Americans on Indigenous People’s Day seems meaningful. And it seems like a good plan. I am not Native, so cannot speak beyond what the people in this article said. However, I think this is a good re-start/re-beginning. I’d love to see something like a constitutional amendment that included…
Why I’m No Longer Telling White People To Read White Fragility
I’ve been reading, learning, listening over the last several months. I’ve watched while Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility flew off the shelves with the recent uprisings against systemic racism. I saw the article where it was exposed that she owns 3 homes and the charities she had supported or claimed to support related to fighting systemic…
Grouchy in Paradise 