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Writing, again.
Why does coming back to writing feel like getting back with an ex after a bad breakup? It’s like you just can’t stay away. Something about them keeps drawing you back. No matter how much your friends tell you they’re bad for you. No matter how many times you replay the agony of the bad…
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Patience. And Time.
I started writing this in 2016 and just left it as a draft. Maybe I was afraid to publish it. I still struggle with some of these very things today. It is nice to have this to come back and read and reflect. It’s left me wondering, how much have I grown… It’s amazing how…
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Criminalization through language: Media’s perpetuation of a racial society
The black male is one of the most feared, reviled, and criminalized persons in the United States of America. Still. After all of the scholarship, ideas, and theories that have been produced by black scholars, in perpetuity. Even by some white scholars as well. No matter how revolted we may pretend we are as a…
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Higher Ground
As a young writer, a former student, an artist, I am always looking for ways to expand my mind. I am always looking at the vastness of a subject and questioning the multiple possibilities that may exist for it. Say for example war. There are several outcomes to war, possibilities for a turnaround in war,…
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Black Entrapment: Between Nationalism and Black Self-Determination
If you want to be Black and be an american in today’s society, you have to give into diversity. This is an interesting concept considering that the majority population feels threatened when they are forced to implement diversity and openly speak out against it. This means, for a Black person, that not only are we…
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The Black woman is…
Unwanted, Un-appreciated, Under-represented, Misunderstood, Mistreated, Overlooked, Disposable, Undervalued, Incorrigible. Yet, still, she is, Patient, loving, and strong. Kind, Wise, Sexy, Beautiful, And courageous. The Whipping Post you sought to dehumanize. Your tongue too immature to stomach this fruit. A flavor accompanied by stench. Your shoulders aren’t broad enough, Your back not sturdy. …
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The Definition of Disposable
They say insanity is repeating the same thing over, and over and, expecting the same results. Einstein is the ‘they’ that I am referring to. The ‘They’ currently perpetuating this insanity is America. Our slip on racism is so thin, it is the open-face casket of Emmitt Till full of deep, gaping lies; wounds so…
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Dream Chasers
How would you want to be remembered? Do you want people to remember you? Are people really going to care about our lives? The things we’ve done? What if we never became anything? People would call me a pessimist but, it’s a serious question. What if we actually attempted to chase our dreams and become…