Not a day goes by where I don’t think about what happened on January 6, 2021. Ok, I’m lying. Days, maybe even months, go by that I don’t even think about what happened. Usually, I tuck this day away in my “Yt on Yt Violence” folder in my file cabinet. It’s right next to my “CDC says: IDK” folder. But when I do think about it, I think about...
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A Black Capitol Police Officer speaks out following the Insurrection on January 6. If privilege was a person, it would look like every motherf**ker that was in there. It’s been almost 2 weeks since the TerrorInsurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol—or as I like to call it: the day the world saw just how delusional and dangerous president-sponsored white supremacists can be. Once the dust settled and the night air...
Twitter, like many of Trump’s top officials, have officially decided to cut the cord after profiting from the racism, xenophobia, white nationalism, and misogyny Trump has spewed on their platform for over a decade. I guess we shouldn’t be too shocked, given that Trump sent a cornucopia of toothless inbred mercenaries to storm Capitol Hill earlier this week, when Congress was set to ratify the Electoral College results. Because...
Today’s announcement that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the official President- and Vice President-Elect has brought with it waves of emotion across the country. This fifth day of post-vote tallying symbolizes a culmination of what so many of us have desired since 2016: A hope for a better future. While we celebrate this pivotal moment in the sociopolitical history of our country, we cannot (and should not) ignore...
Each election cycle Black folks are lectured to about voting. We're inundated with false generalizations about low voter turnout and we all know people who always want to talk about when the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze swept the nation last year, "Black folks stood in line for that sandwich but won't stand in line to vote," as if people of all racial groups don't like Popeyes...shut up.
