I came up with a saying decades ago that has guided my life. It’s this: “You can’t choose what to look at, but you can choose how to look at it.” The main building block to this realization was master negotiator Robert Dawson’s audio series on negotiation tactics, where he gave the example of holding … [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…]
I’ve been trying to get this blog out for years now. Turning my often conflicting views into a cohesive message has proven difficult. The compounding effects of mass shooting after mass shooting leaves me unable to solidify a message; every new circumstance adds to the complications and thereby, a new thought on how to … [Read more…]
Many African Americans say “Barack Obama didn’t do anything for Black people.” This talking point reeks of a propaganda campaign rather than a view genuinely coming from the Black mindset. Given that we began in America as slaves, having a Black man take Western society’s highest seat of power means some degree of progress. Having … [Read more…]
I learned a lot about myself when writing To Pimp a Nation. The thought of exposing my views to others shaped and refined many of those very views. Cultivating my beliefs for public scrutiny wrangled in a lot of incomplete notions in my mind I felt strongly about; it put them in check. I realized … [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…]