Payton Gendron and the mainstream media are on the same team because they are both protectors of white supremacist ideology. — “This was pure evil, it was a straight up racially motivated hate crime” — Erie County Sherrif John Garcia “We are investigating this incident as both a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism” — FBI Buffalo Special Agent Steven Belongia Everyday antiblack racism like hateful glares…

You just have to act like the human you are — White racists are infuriating, and they are everywhere. Their subtle and not-so-subtle violations of our human rights can trigger our personal and ancestral trauma which may lead us to think about murdering them. For us that is a temporary thing. For them the murderous thoughts about Blackfolk continue nonstop, regardless…

Because it has no opinions about us — “We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinions about us.” — Friedrich Nietzsche The tree does not care about our outfit, or whether we’ve read Nietzsche. It doesn’t care whatsoever about the content of our thoughts. And yet…

It is wise not to respond to racists on their home territory, so I’ve taken the fight from Facebook to Medium — The above snapshot is of a racist comment I received in response to a Medium article I shared on Facebook. I have a rule of not responding to comments on Facebook because I dislike the style of discourse the platform encourages, but I was impassioned to write one this time…

The isolation from our kinfolk is real, and its effects are highly damaging — Isolated Blackfolk fear connecting with other Blackfolk, which is a big problem for the many of us in diaspora countries who have little to no black companions. For a reason which is surely spiritual we feel compelled to have black companionship, but we are afraid we will always be the…

Contains information which is misleading and harmful. Author has been placed under surveillance for your safety. — “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”…

A poem exposing the wants of our digital devices and social media — Don’t panic! Just scroll. Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Scroll past the endlessly crescendoing pressure. It’s there, but you kind of forget it while you keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling down into the bottomless bottom of your screen til the garish glare of the undead crowds fades to the edge of your awareness. Plunge into the depths…

For those brave enough to do the racial shadow work — Please read this slowly while paying extra attention to the sensations, feelings and emotions happening in your body in response to these words. Now let’s begin. So you want to believe that black lives are just as valuable as white lives, but do you really believe it? We all need…