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Sam McKenzie Jr.
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My Governor Is Black

“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…

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My Governor Is Black
My Governor Is Black
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Jul 20, 2022

The Powerful Impotence of Merrick Garland

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…

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The Powerful Impotence of Merrick Garland
The Powerful Impotence of Merrick Garland
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Jul 19, 2022

The Accessory That Was Ivana Trump Is Dead

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…

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The Accessory That Was Ivana Trump Is Dead
The Accessory That Was Ivana Trump Is Dead
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Oct 12, 2021

Dave Chappelle Hasn’t Done the Reading, and He Doesn’t Know What a C-section Is

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. …

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Dave Chappelle Hasn’t Done the Reading, and He Doesn’t Know What a C-section Is
Dave Chappelle Hasn’t Done the Reading, and He Doesn’t Know What a C-section Is
LGBTQ

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Aug 27, 2021

On White Female Leadership: Why Kathy Hochul Isn’t the Progress Anyone Needs

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…

Race

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On White Female Leadership: Why Kathy Hochul Isn’t the Progress Anyone Needs
On White Female Leadership: Why Kathy Hochul Isn’t the Progress Anyone Needs
Race

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Jul 22, 2021

How White Women Got White

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…

White Women

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How White Women Got White
How White Women Got White
White Women

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Feb 16, 2021

Opposite Day and White Statecraft

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…

Politics

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Opposite Day and White Statecraft
Opposite Day and White Statecraft
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Feb 7, 2021

Why I No Longer Refer to “White People”

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. …

Race

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Why I No Longer Refer to “White People”
Why I No Longer Refer to “White People”
Race

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Feb 6, 2021

Jen Psaki, Do Better Next Time and Every Time

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…

Politics

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Jen Psaki, Do Better Next Time and Every Time
Jen Psaki, Do Better Next Time and Every Time
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Feb 6, 2021

No, Joe, It Is White Americans’ Fault

They sure as hell ain’t innocent — On Tuesday, January 26, before signing an executive order on “Racial Equity,” President Biden said this: Black and Latino Americans are dying of COVID-19 at rates nearly three times that of white Americans. And it’s not white Americans’ fault, but it’s just a fact. Again, that’s what Biden had to…

Politics

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No, Joe, It Is White Americans’ Fault
No, Joe, It Is White Americans’ Fault
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