Discussions of Black suffering are met with arguments of validity instead of empathy — The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights act of 1964, and the election of the first Black president did not end racism and white supremacy in America. The fact that it took two years for enslaves Africans to learn they were freed due to the selfishness and greed…

Why reparations are the only way to close the racial wealth gap — When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in 2020 and the death toll began to rise at alarming rates, Americans were not concerned with how much it would cost to keep their families safe. $4 trillion, the current budget for COVID relief which includes direct payments to individuals, is…

White supremacy is rooted in insecurity, low self-esteem, and self-loathing — I would be hard-pressed to find a functioning adult in America who isn’t aware that racism exists in this country. I’m not saying they wouldn’t deny it. I’m only saying that you’d have to be living under a rock to not be cognizant of the fact that we live in…

The New Deal was created to ensure the success and financial independence of White Americans — “The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It…

One article’s comment section exposes unfiltered American apathy — Sometimes the comment section is just as scintillating as the featured article. Jeffrey Kass published a remarkable article addressing White Americans who insist on upholding the all too familiar “my family didn’t own slaves” argument in defense of their apathy towards Black Americans. Kass draws a comparison of America’s inability…

Tyre Nichols’ killing at the hands of five Black officers has spawned inaccurate conclusions about policing in America — Tyre Nichols, a Black man, avid skateboarder, gifted photographer, adored son, father, brother, family member, and friend described as having “such a good spirit and calm presence” is dead. He died on January 10, 2023, after succumbing to his injuries from the horrific and brutal beating at the hands of…

If Roots began the essential discussion, this series is the exclamation point — In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the…

The third perpetrator, William Roddy, receives additional 35 years — Gregory and Travis McMichael, the father, and son responsible for the malicious death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020, were sentenced to life in prison on August 8, 2022, for committing a hate crime and violating his civil rights under Georgia law. William Roddy, the third member of…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was set to give this speech on April 7, 1968, but he was killed three days before the world had a chance to hear it — Please don’t act like everyone loved my father. He was assassinated. A 1967 poll reflected that he was one of the most hated men in America. Most hated. Many who quote him now and evoke him to deter justice today would likely hate, and may already hate, the authentic King…