"[W]e do create these boogeymen, then we kill them off or imprison them or vilify them…"

Nah. Brothas be acting like Malcolm wasn't principled even when it came to violence lol.

"I had hella footnotes but I think editorially it read as too academic."

Intercontinental hostages.

"You'll call them Michael only to find out their government is Clarence Peter or something like that."

"There are no QJs running around."

I wish I could tell you you didn't have a point, but I can't. That just highlights to me how insidiously infectious and virulent white supremacy is. You take these masses of individuals, who I don't believe at their core have any greater or lesser capacity for evil than any other human being, and infect them with this…

Rats -> rabbits -> chimps -> Brown folks -> them. That's the rough order.

Thank goodness what was known as Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe, and what was called Léopoldville is called Kinshasa. Only in a world of white supremacy could you be a genocidal racist and have monuments, cities/capitals, and whole countries named after you. On the lands of the peoples you oppressed at that.

They were white men, visionaries, luminaries. Of course they knew exactly what they were doing! Lol. Nah, but really. For some reason, the "Founding Fathers" have been canonized in such a way that they are never really examined critically the way other leaders are. As if they were not just as fallible and…

"Dolt45" LOL!

Like King Leopold of Belgium, whom we rarely hear about when we talk about Holocaust-level genocide?

Them Ike Turner memes need to make a comeback, btw.

And Aaron's DummDummDiddoooo (or Diddeeee, depending on who you ask).

"[T]his argument actually exists in an invisible morass of anti-Blackness… And it implies that the appreciation for depreciating goods is a uniquely Black pathology."

"It’s just enough to keep me from throwing away my old Knicks jersey dress." I'm in love.

Thank you for writing this, Panama. Much respect.

My pops was a radio DJ as well, so I used to get a ton of stuff from him. I also have the same music room aspirations. I feel connected lol.

Yeah. I posted an R.I.P. status post yesterday and an old classmate from college who's into politics was like, "wait… what?" I knew she thought I meant the other one, so I had to clarify.

Mmmmnah. I bet a lot of them encounter PoC all the time. I'm not from the South, but let's stop picking on the South like that's the only place in this country racism and white supremacy has existed. It's getting played out.