I’m so affected by racists throwing Black marriage statistics at me in my early life that today I notice nearly every Black father I see walking down the street with his child. I’ve even contemplated making a website called “Return of the Black Father,” where people can submit anonymous pictures of Black men fathering. Seeing … [Read more…]
America was anti-Black from its inception and it still is. Many feel racism is conscious and intentional but that’s far from true. Racism is America’s original form so any thoughts formed from the American mindset will likely have a racist trajectory. To undo this racist underpinning, if America even intends to, would take a degree … [Read more…]
How Magic Words Evade Discomfort but Tear America Apart. A very effective tool for hiding truths is the “Evasion Label,” a tool that immediately ends constructive dialogue and puts the person seeking understanding on the defensive. Words like “racist,” “Anti-Semite” and “sexist” pit societal norms against curiosity and inquisitiveness. Being that society is more … [Read more…]
Disclaimer: More often than not Americans bury important subjects by exploiting generalizations that make it impossible to make points about groups if there exist exceptions within that group. “Black people have high crime rates,” “white people can’t dance.” Through mandatory absolutism one can bar a subject from discussion and thus stop exploration of unwanted subject … [Read more…]
Righteous Racism happens when non-racists selectively enforce righteous standards, producing a racist effect. One prime example is drug laws, where although African Americans have never been more than 15% of America’s drug users and dealers, they were 40% of the arrests. Although police pursued the righteous cause of fighting drug sales and use, the way … [Read more…]