Samuel James 
Since societies prioritize their privileged classes, those classes get to make the rules. The rules they make reinforce their privileges and so the cycle goes. The core problem with this, of course, is that this value isn’t real. Human worth is decided differently by different groups at different times and it is largely environmental if …
Kamala Harris is biracial. Her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican, but in this country, that means she’s Black. There is a lot expected of Black women in this country that is not expected of anyone else, and all of these things are expected of Kamala Harris. She is expected to like certain …
“You gonna act like a ni**a you gonna get treated like one.” My father used to say that to the TV every time it showed white people protesting. Inevitably he would see footage of a white protester getting beat up by a cop and that’s when he’d point to the screen, turn to me and …