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What Many White People Do Not Understand About Equality.

When we talk about equality in this country, my experience has been that many white people want to focus on how far we have come, to what could be, in an almost altruistic way that omits the icky part in the middle -- white privilege.

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And Yet, I Am an American: Witness to the Self-Seducing Psyche of Democracy.

Seldom does its lament of Black loss achieve the moral pitch as when innocent police officers are slain in retaliation. These retaliations are wrong, yet reveals America’s regard for democracy in principle though its practice violates the volition it claims to venerate.

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Staying ‘Woke’ in the Era of Trump.

Our country revealed its true colors on election night, colors as bright as the sea of red on the electoral map.

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Black on Both Sides: Tales of a Bicontinental Negro. {Part 1}

What becomes abundantly clear as a person of color in the West is that you establish one of many coping mechanisms in order to function on a daily basis. Immersion vs exclusion, acceptance vs defiance, fear vs complacence.

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Love Matters, but Where Is It?

Love is the expansion of holding the pain, the chaos, and hopelessness. Love is limitless. But we are on the edge of our love frontier. It extends into infinity, but are we the warriors willing to risk it and go there? The other side is dark and deep, and there are miles to go before we sleep, ...

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I Have Murder-Fatigue: Pondering the Bullet Points.

Sadly, I can continue with this topic, but for what purpose? Will one emotion eventually outdo the other? Hell, while I’m at it, I could shift topics and list the sadness and anger I feel for myself and for too many of my friends and countless other women around the world who have been abused, ...

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Dismantle Fear and Ignorance to Eradicate Racism, Raise Consciousness, and Embrace Equality.

I have kept quiet because I don’t know what to say. I’m afraid I might offend people by saying the wrong thing. I don’t know how I can help. I don’t know how I can make things better. I don’t know how to get people to remember. But I know this: I cannot stay silent any longer.