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White Fragility Is a Problem
White fragility is a term that Dr. Robin DiAngelo invented to describe how white people react to issues of racism. Dr. DiAngelo has a Ph.D. in multicultural education, and her specialty is whiteness studies and critical discourse analysis.The term came from a paper Dr. DiAngelo wrote in 2011 on race and social injustice, called “White…
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LGBTQ Community Racism
You would think that persecuted individuals such as the LGBTQ community might be a bit more sensitive to the plight of other marginalized groups, especially when you consider that there are some people who hate gays more than they do people of color. I have dated guys of different ethnicities who detested gays and used…
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Why Black People Distrust The Police
In July of 1964, years before I was even an embryo in my mother’s womb, a White NYC police lieutenant – with 20+ years of service and many commendations, including four that were given to him for disarming men holding guns – shot and killed a 15-year-old Black kid. Why? This officer, who had taken…
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Missing Black Girls
When Black and Brown girls – and I don’t mean women, I mean girls under the age of 18 – go missing, they never get the attention that grown White women who are often partially responsible for their own disappearances do. We are only hearing so much about 14-year-old Jashyah Moore because of the recent…
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Available Screenplay: The Ire – Dark Vengeance (c) 2020
FADE IN:DARKNESSThe Hollywood Hills at dusk. There are the typical sounds of a neighborhood in the spring: children playing, adults jogging and/or walking the family pooch, people on bikes and scooters. Laughter.EXT. HOTEL – DAYA twelve-story building, pristine and white, stands like a magnificent behemoth in the Hollywood Hills. An enormous rectangular pool surrounded by…
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Available Screenplay: 50 Days (c) 2019
FADE IN:EXT. DIRT ROAD – DAYAn old Jeep turns onto the road and drives along at a slow pace, hitting a bump every now and then. The road is only wide enough for one vehicle; thick forest surrounds it. The area is dark, gloomy.CUT TO:EXT. CABIN – DAYRevealed is a small cabin in a clearing.…
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Available Screenplay: Here is The Question (c) 2018
FADE IN:EXT. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT – DAYHere is an ordinary suburban neighborhood in the United States, an average suburban house, in a mid-size city somewhere in a sparsely populated Western state. The homes are all beige, gray, tan, or white stucco, some of them with a stone front as the one in question features. Trees are…
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Democrats: White Women Are The Issue
If Democrats hope to regain in 2022 what they recently lost this year, they must do all that is within their power to earn the trust and votes of White women. They should have known by how many White women voted for DJT in spite of his misogyny (which White women seem to usually loathe…
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Available Screenplay: Eris (c) 2020
FADE ININT. CABIN – MORNINGA beautiful, historic log cabin home sits on acreage with mountains in the background. It is not a large dwelling. In the driveway is a small hybrid vehicle, and there is a storage shed not far from the parked car. The area is quite remote – there are only a few…
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The House Negro Behind January 6 Pt. 2
In early 2019, Alexander launched a MAGA influencer site, Culttture, with Trump’s favorite meme-smith, Logan “Carpe Donktum” Cook, who has glorified violence against the media. Alexander said the idea came to him after LSD “rewired” his brain. The site made an initial splash by sending Alexander, Islamophobic Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer and far-right subversive Jacob Wohl, who…