Category: RACE
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On Adele, Beyoncé & Solidarity
I’m a big Adele fan. I have been for years. I own all of Adele’s albums and I know the words to all of her songs. If you see me walking with earbuds in, there’s a pretty good chance I’m listening to Adele. Her music has felt, for me, in times of heartbreak, especially, real […]
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White-ish Christmas. Or, Dealing With My Non-Black In-Laws
Words by Mia McKenzie Drawings by Ritapa Neogi When I was a little kid, I was always the first one up on Christmas morning. I’d lie in bed for a few minutes trying to telepathically communicate to my sleeping family members that it was time to wake up, but it never worked, so I’d […]
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TRUMPLED. Or, OMG What Have White People Done?
Words by Mia McKenzie Drawings by Ritapa Neogi The election of Donald Trump had me in a state of shock. For some reason, even knowing all that I know about oppression and the ways that it operates, even with alllllll that I’ve written about it over the years, I still wasn’t really prepared for this […]
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4 Things We Should All Teach Kids About Racism Right Now
For the past three years, ever since Trayvon Martin was murdered for walking while Black and reports of unarmed Black people being killed by cops and wanna-be cops have surged, leading to the Black Lives Matter movement and push-back from Black communities all over the country, I’ve wondered how, and if, we’re ever going to […]
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This Is What Rihanna’s BBHMM Video Says About Black Women, White Women and Feminism
The innanetz are all abuzz over Rihanna’s new #BBHMM video. White Feminists™ are especially upset, many of them calling the video “misogynist”. It’s been called “torture porn” and “incredibly violent”. I watched the video and…well…I see why White Feminists™ are so upset. Yes, there is violence (not nearly as much as an R-rated movie, […]
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On Ferguson Protests, the Destruction of Things, and What Violence Really Is (And Isn’t)
Since the announcement on Monday that Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, wouldn’t be brought to trial, huge protests have broken out all over the country, from Ferguson (where the community had already been protesting for over a hundred days, since the day Michael Brown […]
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Why I’m Not Really Here For Emma Watson’s Feminism Speech At the U.N.
Actor Emma Watson, of Harry Potter movie fame, is a new Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women and she spoke at the UN on Saturday to launch the HeForShe campaign, which aims to mobilize men to end gender inequality somehow (the campaign doesn’t seem to call men to any particular action of any sort). The campaign wants men […]
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Things To Stop Being Distracted By When A Black Person Gets Murdered By Police
The killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO, which has resulted in protests in that town and harsh police push-back and brutality against even more of its citizens, and which, via social media, has gotten the attention of people around the world, probably isn’t even the latest occurrence of unarmed […]
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The White Teachers I Wish I Never Had
I was born Black in a Black family in a Black neighborhood. My early childhood was an entirely Black experience. Besides what I saw on television and in movies, my whole world was Black people. My family, my friends, my babysitters, my neighbors and my teachers were all Black. From Head Start through third […]
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No More “Allies”
I’m over the term “ally.” Between Tim Wise’s recent (but not new) bullshit, a recent visit to a college where some so-called allies don’t even understand basic racism 101, and the constant cookie-seeking of people who just can’t do the right thing unless they are sure they’re gonna get some kind of credit for it, […]