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Guns and white supremacy: Regulating one won’t end the other

May 16, 2020August 12, 2019 by Samuel James
blurry man in shadows pointing a gun

Right quick: If you are looking to end white supremacy, regulating guns is not the answer. Yes, obviously, guns should be highly regulated, but white supremacy is not contingent on the legality of guns. If you could go back in time and erase guns from this country’s history, Black Wall Street would still be gone. …

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Categories Commentary, Racial and Cultural

July 4th isn’t really the jam for Black folks

July 3, 2019 by Shay

I saw a tweet recently that went something like, “We Black people celebrate the BBQ, the fireworks and the summer shorts. We don’t celebrate Independence Day.” That isn’t true about all Black people but it’s pretty prevalent and, for the record, it isn’t about hating the country or being anti-American. Because, for better or worse, …

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Will we settle for Trump’s world or fight for a more wonderful one?

June 25, 2019 by Moises Nunez

“If you can believe it, Abraham Lincoln was treated supposedly very badly. But nobody’s been treated badly like me.” – Donald Trump (ABC NEWS, 2019) “Life doesn’t work that way.” – Donald Trump (ABC NEWS, 2019) “These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the …

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