Bitch Anarchy

Ali Alexander, House Negro Extraordinaire even though he actually is biracial, was born in Texas and given the name Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar. According to him, his father, a foreign exchange student, came from a prominent family in the UAE – United Arab Emirates – and abandoned Ali and his Black mother when Ali was a…

 She had taken a foot-path across the downs, and as Boyne, meanwhile, had probably returned from the station by the highroad, there was little likelihood of their meeting on the way. She felt sure, however, of his having reached the house before her; so sure that, when she entered it herself, without even pausing to…

II Weary with her thoughts, she moved toward the window. The library was now completely dark, and she was surprised to see how much faint light the outer world still held.      As she peered out into it across the court, a figure shaped itself in the tapering perspective of bare lines: it looked a…

Edith Wharton, 1910 “Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never know it.”      The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into the…

 Edgar Allen Poe, November 1846 The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point…

Nov. 17—Much struck by the character of the carving on my desk: I do not know that I had ever carefully noticed it before. My attention was called to it by an accident. During the Magnificat I was, I regret to say, almost overcome with sleep. My hand was resting on the back of the…

By M. R. James, 1910 This matter began, as far as I am concerned, with the reading of a notice in the obituary section of the Gentleman’s Magazine for an early year in the nineteenth century: On February 26th, at his residence in the Cathedral Close of Barchester, the Venerable John Benwell Haynes, D.D., aged…

Systemic racism is rife in the lives of the BIPOC community here in the United States, as it is elsewhere that White people dominate – and that is just the way that they like it! They want to keep it that way because it means that they’re on top, as usual. They hate it when…

by Ambrose Bierce, published first in 1893 (Town Topics – NY) and in 1896 (San Francisco Examiner) I – ONE DOES NOT ALWAYS EAT WHAT IS ON THE TABLE By the light of a tallow candle which had been placed on one end of a rough table a man was reading something written in a book. …

Coondoleezza – sorry, Condoleezza – Rice, more familiarly known as Condi, the most prominent female Black Republican until the recent rise of Coondace Owens, has come under fire again (she’s been under fire several times, especially when she was 66th US Secretary of State under the Bush Administration). This time, Coondi – whoops, Condi –…