…skin deep who we are is more than that though a powerful label is Black, is fact that Black is not merely an absence of white nor of light, that’s darkness or shadow, Black is a presence, of colour of concentrated melanin Though I’m not sure anyone has truly black skin deepest dark brown might…

A reflection upon performative racial blindness — When the elephant in the room is crushing you, the onus is not on you to point this out to anyone else in the room. They see that the elephant is crushing you, because they have eyes. If the elephant is crushing you, it might be a bad idea to…

We give too much away on here — I have found ancestral healing here on Medium, and I am thankful to the Black brothers and sisters who crafted the words that helped me remember, accept and honour parts of my Black identity that I had lost touch with, or never touched in the first place. Your words helped…

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…

And bring forth our literary gifts, talents and works in the service of our community — We do not want to touch the truth of our history, for it is truly filthy. Many of us descend from the products of legal rape. Many of our lineages didn’t exist because our forefather’s genitals were hacked from their bodies. Of our countless ferocious rebellions only one succeeded, which…