White people are often defensive when they’re called out for these subtle snubs and insults. But researchers have found that microaggressions correlate with racial bias. — By Jonathan Kanter, Director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection, University of Washington A white man shares publicly that a group of Black Harvard graduates “look like gang members to me” and claims he would have said the same of white people dressed similarly. A white physician…

Thinking they discovered a "new world" is wild — While eating some beignets near Cafe Du Monde, I read a brown and gold plaque that claimed New Orleans was "first sighted as an Indian portage to Lake Pontchartrain and Gulf in 1699 by Bienville and Iberville" and that the city gained its name from the Duke of Orleans, and…

BIPOCPOP, say it with me now… — I don’t know of a better phrase to describe White folks than ‘People of Pallor’. It’s just so spot on. The first time I discovered the term was while reading a comment on social media. After Googling its origins, I found an author who’d used the expression in his book’s…

The famous American author may have written more if not for being turned off by something that made her put down her pen — Laura Ingalls Wilder shot to national prominence as an author after a series of popular books based on her remarkable life were published starting when she was 65. In subsequent years, millions of copies were sold, and a beloved adapted television series had a celebrated run of a decade, making…

As a black woman, I didn’t notice I didn’t have privilege until I fully witnessed someone who did. — I once shared an office with a white man. We became good friends and we would share our joys and frustrations with working in a large multinational. We trusted each other, and our families got to know one another. Our daughters were in the same class. The company decided to…

Why it’s time to redirect our energy in the pursuit of racial equity. — When I was a kid, I loved martial arts. Growing up during the age of Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, and X-Men — It was inevitable for me to beg my mom to put me in a dojo. And she did. I was nine, pursuing my blue belt in Tae Kwon…

Drop Your Cocks And Grab Your Socks: A Preamble For reasons beyond my picayune, perhaps pickaninny, comprehension, I have been blessed my entire life with absolutely gifted thinkers. A few of them are still bound by the gravity of the planetary prison called Earth and will read this article. …

You cannot dismantle what you cannot see. You cannot challenge what you do not understand. Layla F. Saad [1] “Oh, no! You can’t say that [my generally progressive organization] is part of a white supremacy culture! We don’t wear white hoods and lynch anyone! We’re not a hate group!” Yes…

AKA, “Did You See That?” — White people like to insist that they are not “racist” because they personally do not engage in racist acts. They insist on relegating racism to the past, thus absolving themselves of present responsibility, and they deny their inherent privilege because that would confirm that there is, in fact, a “system”…

The ‘fix’ has always been in — Black Georgia is confronted with the very real possibility of losing its first black US Senator, the Right Reverend Raphael Warnock, an educated, articulate, erudite black man, who also holds forth from the sanctified pulpit once occupied by the sainted Right Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Senator Warnock’s GOP…

Don’t Even Try To Tell Me that I Am Not! — Something I see each day really bothers me. It Gnaws at me like a ravenous badger! In short, it is the indignation and outrage which is expressed by many privileged white males… when they are told that they are privileged white males! The instantaneous and outlandish averse reaction to these…

Black Opinions have No Affect on White Voices, White Money, White Power, or Systemic White Superiority — White Privilege is a gift of, well … PRIVILEGE. One of those privileges being the luxury of giving zero fucks about the collective opinions of the world of minorities around you. Systemic Racism is a protector. Systemic Racism is a mighty foundation so solid that White America stands on it…

‘Minorities’ are getting the ‘reigns’ just in time to take the blame — Colored people and women are becoming the face of everything while everything falls apart. Great. Black people, gay people, and minorities (the actual global majority) are becoming the face of advertising. An African-American is head of the US Defense Department (actually offense). Women are constantly resigning as Prime Minister of…

The Witness: This article examines the integral role of Blackness in this nation’s history, and, resultantly, why it may be “White-Washing” to be referred to as African-American. We all know the scene of the White person who refers to us as “Black”, then instantly corrects themselves by saying “African-American”. Although…

It Sounds Just Like Qualified Immunity Today — “And if any slave resist his master, or owner, or other person, by his or her order, correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction, it shall not be accounted felony; but the master, owner, and every such other person so giving correction, shall be free and acquit of all punishment and accusation for the same, as if such accident had never happened. And also, if any negro, mulatto, or Indian, bond or free, shall at any time, lift his or her hand, in opposition against any Christian, not being negro, mulatto, or Indian, he or she so offending, shall, for every such offence, proved by the oath of the party, receive on his or her bare back, thirty lashes, well laid on; cognizable by a justice of the peace for that county wherein such offence shall be committed.” — The Casual Killing Act of 1669

Stop supporting Russia and show a little gratitude — I’d like to take this moment to remind our friends in China exactly why you are where you are in life. This letter is not meant for your dictator, Xi Jinping. I realize that you’re too politically lazy to do anything about him. But you can’t play stupid when it…

Nah, I’m joking, they’re never ever perfect — The Oxford dictionary’s definition of a white supremacist is “ a person who believes that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular, Black or Jewish people”. Now that we’ve established who these…