The little, pink General Lee

The last time I really went through the house was probably 10 years ago. I had just come back from my first big tour abroad and I couldn’t wait to tell my dad all about it. The visit went how they almost always went. I told him stories, he beamed with pride. He told me …

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When they call you a racist

white man angrily pointing a finger

What a week! Seriously, it’s not every day that  the leader of a country decides to tweet shame a sexual abuse survivor. I don’t know about you but under the leadership of Trump, the world moves at such a rapid pace that even as a news junkie, I can’t keep up.   If world happenings …

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The racist garbage in the back of my brain

Side-profile drawing of a man's head, abstract with glowing colors instead of normal skin tone, mostly red, green, yellow and orange, with what resembles a large cloud of mist in the same colors coming out of the top of the head to form a little cloud

Every time someone shares the image of the cartoon supposedly depicting Serena Williams,* it hurts. It’s like a stab. Stop! Stop showing that to me! I don’t want to see that ugly racism! I’ve written about the internal, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual process I’ve been going through over the years, working to shed my own …

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