Just got on Netflix so I will be checking that out. Thanks for the suggestion.

I only came across her book because I writing an essay (for fun) about the Curse of Ham and how that became the Christian justification for the enslavement of Africans and their maltreatment in the Americas.

zero cases of a prosecutor winning a murder or manslaughter conviction in the case of an on-duty police shooting

fear of being black

Haiti had a whole ass war that saw it being invaded by Spain, Britain and the Bonapartist French. A few dead Frenchmen is not only expected but desired.

In Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin writes:

I think what we’re going through and considering Trump’s German background is closer to the Viennese the Turks are at the gates!

I’ve always wanted to write something in honour of Billie Holiday but it’s difficult to capture such a life in words. I’m not intrigued by her addiction (I’m currently working through my own) but rather by the strange relationship between Holiday and her mother, her self-effacing honesty and the company she kept (not…

Our times is probably what the Roman Empire in its descent must’ve felt like. Madness and the barbarians are at the gates!

I’ve just finished reading Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last Soviets and I was intrigued by the amount of people she interviewed that held onto their Communist Party membership cards.

Rutgers said the university is initiating disciplinary proceedings against Bullock.

immediately assumed my mom gave me a black eye.

caseworkers are quicker to perceive black children as being at risk and in need of removal from their homes.

Ron DeSantis is the embodiment of the social bleaching that has allowed Italians and their offspring to pass as white in the United States (next in line are white-appearing Latinos, Arabs and Caucasians like the Kardashians). The same nativism that would’ve stalked his ancestors who landed in America is what is…

Insha’allah!

It’s like when police tried to say that Fred Hampton was killed in a shootout when it was clear he was still in bed when police came bursting through, guns a-blazing.

It’s in its final stages before going to print by Christmas. The general release will be for the fall season in 2019.

I doubt people will stop from repeating the rumour. It does add, in a strange way, a sense of daring to their otherwise wholesome image.

Even if they were swingers, none of us have any business being in their bedroom. Also, if I were Jada, I would never let a next person put their hands or parts on Will.