Even before the pandemic, our collective memory was short. Americans excel at a certain lack of recollection and wishful thinking, rather than using memory and critical thought to assess and analyze situations. It’s why we never really move the needle on racism or any other core injustices that are central to our identity. It most …
To me, as a Black man, The Slap is complicated. It brings up questions of perception and masculinity and trauma and relativism that I’m still trying to find the answers to in my own life. The fact that mine is just one in an infinite list of hot takes suggests I’m not alone on that …
I turned 43 back in January and I’m not too happy about it. It’s not my ever-graying beard that bothers me. It’s not aches or pains or a slowly dissolving understanding of popular culture. What really bothers me is that I feel robbed. You see, some of my earliest memories were of elders telling me …