Systemic

The last confederate monument in America was completed in 1972. Not 1872, 1972. From the end of the civil war through the civil rights movement, monuments to a failed attempt to separate the country based on race were raised through America and abroad. These monuments and statues were never intended to honor the heritage of the south. They were intended to honor the heritage of slavery, discrimina...

Dylan Roof, Charlottesville, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and on and on and on. After so many of these incidents, good-intentioned and well-meaning people like to say "this isn't the America I know!" "This isn't us!" "We're better than this!" Really?   Have you actually looked at the American track record when it comes to race? This is America, at its core. From the earliest settlers (read colon...

In 1961 James Baldwin, when being interviewed about being Black in America, said the following, "To be negro in America and relatively conscience is to be in a state of rage, almost all of the time." 60 years later, the sentiment still exists. Police brutality, unjust sentencing, voter disenfranchisement, unequal access to education and resources, and so many tools of systemic racism were fought a...