Being human is not for sissies. And being a Human of Color is definitely not for sissies with a faint heart.
For centuries, we have navigated being human in a system designed to exclude, undermine, and demolish our humanity, our mental health, and even our right to breathe.
It’s a COVID-19 jungle out there — and poison is in the air we need to breathe
How much needless suffering and dying is enough? Why are we allowing COVID-19 to outwit us?
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people have endured extended suffering and are eternally dead from COVID-19! And this tragedy is still in progress. Furthermore, health care workers are overworked and traumatized; millions of people are unemployed; homelessness is an impending fright for many of us; and hundreds of companies and businesses — small, medium, and large — are extinct.
Today, I gave away $3, and it made me feel well-to-do and grateful, even though my own funds are limited and stretched.
Humanity is waiting on us to create
Leo Babauta over at Zenhabits.net said: I write of simplicity in a world that’s needlessly complicated.
Not too long ago, I came across these words and it got me thinking about creativity and our social problems.
Being from the tropics makes me more “appetizing” to White People even with my dark skin
As a Black Caribbean-American, my interactions with many White Americans is different than the one many Black Americans have.
Because we have no hope of eradicating systemic racism without you.
White Friends, the racial abyss between White people and People of Color is, in many ways, vast, broad, and bottomless.
An apology for your whiteness is good. for. nothing.
Recently, my best friend who is white was having a conversation with a white co-worker. Apparently, it was a long meandering conversation about the current state of social madness and racial unrest in America. And somewhere along the way, this co-worker uttered these nonsensical words:
To not feel shame is to be a psychopath — but shame can be constructive
Sniff. Sniff. Do you smell that?! Do you smell the stench of yet another bullsh*t period of “racial reckoning” in American history? As a Black American, there are so many things I want to share about how much the current state of bullsh*t offends me and other people of color. It is such a giant pile of crap to slog through that it is difficult to know where to begin. But I think I’ll begin with the horror of chattel slavery.
It was independence for some but certainly not for all.
I refuse to celebrate Independence Day. In the United States, this is the day that marks this country’s adoption of the lofty document of lies and damn lies called the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
And do they make you proud?
Lately, it seems I am haunted by the countless choices and non choices I’ve made over the course of my life: