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A School Shooting in My Hometown
Yesterday afternoon, a student was shot at a local high school here in the city of my birth. My niece attends that school. Even though I knew that she was okay – she texted her mother from the school as lockdown was implemented – I felt anxious and dreaded further news. It was bad –…
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Religious-Based Violence Against Women
Forced female genital mutilation. Child marriage. Honor violence. Rape and sexual assault. These are just a few examples of gendered violence that women face on a daily basis. One thing that all of these acts of violence have in common? They are often justified on religious grounds.* Religion is a man-made invention that has created nothing but misery…
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Native American Cultural Genocide
While Black Americans – I am not as sure about Canadian Blacks – might have lost most of their African heritage, they managed to create their very own culture within this White Settler nation known as the United States. While we no longer speak Hausa, Igbo, Mandingo, Wolof or Yoruba we have our own way…
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Male Entitlement + Misogyny = Sexist Violence
Many experts believe and say that men dehumanize women, which is the root of misogyny and sexist violence towards the ‘fairer sex’, as we used to be known. However, a Cornell University professor of philosophy has published a book called ‘Entitled’, and she is of the opinion that dehumanization is not behind hatred of women.…
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Angry White Middle Aged Men
Holy shit, those men are furious – now I understand why they are on the warpath! The recently released Census 2020 results are one. Another is that the world is rapidly changing and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. Who are ‘they’, you ask? Angry White middle-aged men. They long for…
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‘White’ is a Verboten Word
When it comes to discussing matters involving race and ethnicity, using the word White to describe anything is generally forbidden. Use it to describe something – say, a neighborhood or even the type of car certain people drive (i.e. Toyotas are a White car) and you are called a racist and accused of ‘reverse racism’ even…
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Gods & Goddesses of Africa
AdroaOther Names: “God in the sky”, God on Earth”, Creator God, River God.Location: The Lugbara of Zaire and Uganda.Description: He is pictured as tall and white with only half of his body visible.Rules Over: Social order, law, death. AkujLocation: The Turkana of Kenya.Rules Over: Divination. AlaOther Names: Ale, Ane.Location: The Ibo of Nigeria.Description: Extremely popular…
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Rock-n-Roll Is Dead
Gene Simmons thinks that rock-n-roll is dead and he blames streaming services for the genre’s decline because they pay the artists very little money. Therefore, singers and musicians cannot survive due to their need to perform whatever work they can get in order to make it financially. I can understand that but it’s also because…
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Covid-19 Worse in Republican States
The Delta variant of Coronavirus is spreading like the wildfires out West but this isn’t making any headway with the anti-vax, anti-mask crowd who seem to be amping up their insanity with every pandemic death. Most of the faces you see in those protesting crowds are Caucasian though there are others who still shy away…
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Feds Targeted BLM Protestors
That the federal government went after the Black Lives Matter movement and those who protested in the name of police brutality using oppressive criminal prosecutions in a blatant attempt to prevent the global revolution is hardly a shock to me or anyone else of color (not including the coonservatives of course). But pardon the feds…