Why the “All Lives Matter” movement is BS.
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From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
The Selling of God
The Obama Diary has a lineup of tweets concerning racial harassment of a Philadelphia Barnes & Noble patron by management, as reported by HuffPost Live’s Dr. Marc Lamont Hill:
Everyone knows you can hang out at Barnes & Noble for hours, not buy anything, and not be harassed or have the cops called. That’s pretty much what a lot of high school kids do with their Saturdays. But hey, not for Black people, right? The injustice never ends.
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Watching John Oliver w/ NOW Columbus, GA
At NOW Columbus, GA. Watched Last Week Tonight with John Oliver‘s sex-ed segment. We all CLAPPED. SO. HARD. when Jonathan Banks denounced his own teenage sex-ed “bowling” video.
AWFUL: Conservationists Pull Out a Plastic Straw Out of Turtle’s Nose
Professor john a. powell: “Black Lives Matter, A Year After Ferguson”
Strictly 4 My Blerds
Here’s an idea, perhaps for fanfiction: bring all the best-known African-American nerds and geeks from television, film and comics together under one roof. To solve a mystery, to find love, to save the world (or some other planet, like America), to go Hunger Games on each other, to break out of a dystopian neighborhood/school together, to do a heist of somebody’s dream, I dunno.
I just want to see all the black nerds (blerds) and geeks to get together in an alternate universe. For once, they won’t be sidekicks and best friends, but the center of the story.
I’ll flesh this out more later.
On Being A Regular Nigga in Blerd Spaces
I don’t use the n-word, but this piece makes sense concerning #empathy. #blerd
So, yay for the Internet. In the past few years I’ve found big groups of Black and brown people online with whom to discuss cool stories and get recommendations for even better ones. When I make jokes in these spaces, they don’t flop because people actually understand the cultural references (Dear White People of Reddit…). I don’t have to convince them that having one of the only brown human characters in Dragon Age 1 and 2 be a randy pirate woman is problematic. It’s been nice.
It has also been a little disorienting. Even though I share interests and some race-based cultural knowledge with many of these people, it doesn’t seem that I have shared experiences when it comes to how my interests affected my perception of my racial self and my community membership.
When the conversation starts about how none of us ever really fit in with the other…
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