Calling All White People, Part 48: Black labor should not be free labor

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TODAY’S EPISODE: Don’t make Black people your intellectual and emotional sharecroppers [To find other installments of “Calling All White People,” click here] As I’m writing this post, it’s Black Friday. For the 0.1% of you who don’t know what that is, it’s the day after the Thanksgiving Day holiday (or Day of Mourning or however …

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Calling All White People, Part 46: You already know the answer

old style corded black phone mounted on red paneled wall

Calling All White People, Part 46 TODAY’S EPISODE: Stop asking other people (especially POC) what you should do    [To find other installments of “Calling All White People,” click here] BGIM recently posed a question online—I think it was on Facebook but it really doesn’t matter—asking people what “Black Lives Matter” means to them beyond …

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Calling All White People, Part 45: Stop worrying about the broken windows already

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Calling All White People, Part 45 (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: No, you don’t get to tone-police the uprising, either …

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