Calling All White People, Part 25: On the subject of digital blackface

Black and white image of telephone outside in the dark

Calling All White People, Part 25 (A periodic attempt to mobilize white people for something other than supporting just other melanin-deficient folks and maintaining a status quo of a nation geared toward whiteness as the baseline and the norm) By An Average White Guy TODAY’S EPISODE: Let us not attempt to be “black” when we …

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The literal baggage of racism

I want to take this opportunity to thank a couple of Black people, but first, let me start back a ways… The problem with person-to-person racism is that it’s stupid. I know that’s obvious, but it still gets to me. Like, it’s people just not thinking their shit through. Then systemic racism allows the stupid …

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The ramblings of a tired Black woman

For the past several years, we have been bombarded by images of Black lives being snuffed out at the hands of law enforcement. For some, the ensuing conversations in the aftermaths of these deaths represented the first time they had started to examine racism in America. And yet, still these conversations didn’t go far enough. …

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