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Continue reading →: What’s the Difference Between White Liberal Rhetoric and True Advocacy?One of my oldest friends has a service job, work truck, hard hat, uniform, the whole bit. He often has to visit people at their home to do prep work before they start major projects that require digging and potentially hitting power, gas, and cable lines. He’s told me stories…
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Continue reading →: You Want an Immediate Way to Fight the Battle for Black Lives? Buy BlackI don’t like protests. I understand them, the rage, emotion, the history and everything else that fuels such demonstrations. They do create awareness and solidarity, and I believe they have some value. But I don’t want Black people to focus their energy there. The country is up in arms right…
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Continue reading →: Black Lives Do Not Matter – to the PoliceI haven’t been able to sleep well the past two nights. I keep having dreams that I’m stuck in a tight space, and I wake up yelling, hands and arms flailing. So, I looked it up. One interpretation suggests this dream “claustrophobia may be a sign that you feel a…
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Continue reading →: People Are Avoiding the ‘Rona In More Ways Than OneSo, my mom turned 80 this week. Huge milestone, and it’s sad we couldn’t have a party or some kind of get together, but the way the ‘rona is set up, one must be cautious lest your celebration lead, quite literally, to your demise. It’s funny though. My old lady…
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Continue reading →: Patti LaBelle, Diamonds and Spinach – It’s Not What You ThinkActually, now that I look at that title, I don’t know what you might think about that interesting pairing LOL, but it’s not as weird as it sounds. Jill Scott released a little video on the ‘Gram yesterday, and I want to comment on it because it’s light and heartwarming…
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Continue reading →: Ahmaud Arbery and the Legacy of Inaction, Injustice and Tragedy Porn for Black PeopleSo, the past week has been interesting. I say interesting because everything that’s been happening should have already happened on or immediately after February 23, 2020. That’s the day Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while taking a jog in Georgia. But it was only this week that his murderers, father and…
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Continue reading →: In the Age of the ‘Rona It’s Mask or Die: But If You’re a Black Man, Apparently It’s ComplicatedI was out for one of the two walks I’ll take today when I saw an older black man get extremely startled. He was edging his lawn and didn’t see a woman walking behind him in the street until she was quite close. Not too close, mind, but he jumped…
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Continue reading →: Sarcasm, Bleach and Sunlight: I Think I’ll Just Sleep Until Times Get BetterSo, I saw an article on Fast Company today, “5 reasons we need emotionally intelligent leaders in times of crisis.” Are you nodding? Yeah. Me too. Day to day people are struggling. I mean, they’re really struggling. At last count, some 26 million Americans applied for unemployment in the month or so.…
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Continue reading →: What to Do When You’re #blackAF and a Walking, Hilarious StereotypeOkay, so I started watching #blackAF because who wouldn’t want to watch a Netflix original series about a family of black people struggling with something other than sports injuries, being broke, abuse, being chased by police, drugs, booze, sex or gambling addiction, and/or trying to survive in the face of…
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