As a Jewish person, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Holocaust deniers and antisemitism aside, most of us would agree that this was a heroic last-ditch attempt to fight back against a horrific genocide. It’s also more than likely that innocent people were harmed by the resistance and property was …
BLM is about fighting for survival. Stop clutching pearls. Read More »
Would you walk for a year? Get arrested? Concede?
400 years with a foot on your neck will teach you perseverance.
HIs biggest fear was not whether he would break the record, it was whether he would live to see the next year.
I’ve talked about white supremacy. I’ve talked about patriarchy. Combine those two toxins and you get misogynoir, the vile poison suffered by women of color, and more specifically, black women. When asked to address this, I joked and told Geri Miller the amount of rum it would take for me to discuss misogynoir would put me in …
Misogynoir: The Awful Cocktail of Patriarchal and White Supremacist Toxins Read More »
The term “white supremacy” is making headlines lately because the occupant of the oval office is a white supremacist. But there seems to be some confusion about exactly what white supremacy is. For those who who don’t know, here’s a brief, incomplete primer on white supremacy: First of all, all white supremacy is racism. This …
White Supremacy is the Air We Breathe: That’s Why We’re Choking Read More »
anyone who clutches their pearls, claiming the use of the term ‘racist’ marks a destruction of the institution of journalism, would do best to study the actual history
If we can tell you apart, the least you can do is not get the one of two Asians whom you know confused with the other. It’s not that hard.
I’ve been here for 30 years. I speak your language. I’m educated. I’ve served this country. I married a white woman. And it’s still not enough.
