“Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols. The power embedded in the word nigger is also symbolic. Burning crosses do not literally raise the black poverty rate, and the Confederate…

I’d like to think that Merrick Garland is getting ready to indict Trump. I dream of Trump in handcuffs with the same sad crying face as Jim Bakker. For all the upheaval he brings, I need to see Trump disheveled. And then there’s reality, also known as history. History tells…

No one is only one thing in life and death. But I must say that Ivana Trump was a long-standing accessory to Donald Trump. No court of law can adjudicate what she did and what she supported. Only the court of public opinion can settle her type of accessory to wrongdoing. That’s why she has earned this rebuke. When she…

After Dave Chappelle’s SNL Monologue on Nov 7, 2020, professional smart person Tressie McMillan Cottom tweeted that she could hear the citations in Chappelle’s monologue. I agreed. …

Kathy Hochul will never be my governor. But that will not stop me from commenting on her leadership. Hochul has made me realize that I can’t celebrate white female political leadership. White women in political office is not the progress anyone needs. I live in a country where a Black…

James Baldwin told us how white men became white, but he left white women out of it. Of white men he said: "White men-from Norway, for example, where they were Norwegians -became white: by slaughtering the cattle, poisoning the wells, torching the houses, massacring Native Americans, raping Black women." For…

It’s you; it isn’t us — My mind is still processing the picture of a white terrorist with his foot up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk. And the song “What It Feels Like” by Nipsey Hussle and JAY-Z brought it up again with this line: “You let them cr**k*rs storm your Capitol, put they feet up on…

Every writer has their preferences and style. I pay attention to racist and antiracist language and usage. I noticed the recent talk about capitalizing or not capitalizing race categories. …

Your responses to white media on the right aren’t good enough — Over the next four years, the Biden administration will repeatedly demonstrate the active role white liberals have in the oppression of Black people and people of color. On Friday, February 5, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki did a weak-ass job responding to white media on the right. Let’s look…