As we are still in the never-ending fight for Freedom, I wanted to recognize a former slave. This story is still relevant as we are still fighting for freedom. This touched me because it is so hard to trace black people’s ancestry due to slavery so it is awesome when you can and discover your lineage. A childhood friend of mine, @lbrust, recently learned that his great great great grandfather is Dangerfield Newby. You will […]
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#RepresentationMatters. My entire life the vast majority of the time there was a single Black character that was barely part of the story, was never integral, and was either only there to die in service of the white characters, for comedic relief, to dance, or to just silently represent tokenism as if they were a broken and forgotten manakin that some (actually important) white character once called a “friend”, or simply managed to put up […]
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I am an American and America is racist. This is nothing new and America is what we thought it was. So many people, especially whites, think racism has improved by great strides in America. Oh, you mean because we are not sold and purchased anymore. I guess we should be satisfied with that. People say we have allies and whites have contributed to this change but there are some that the history books celebrate when […]
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The Last Dance documentary by ESPN and has created more discussion ever about Michael Jordan being the best player to ever play basketball. I admit MJ used to be my favorite player and I owned just about every pair of Air Jordans that were created before 2003. But even I can admit that Lebron James is the GOAT. People credit Jordan the most for everything. But what did he accomplish before Pippen and Phil? How many championships did […]
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My mind takes me to the X-Men. Are we seen as mutants? Why can’t we be treated equally? We have to understand that yes some cops are bad, not all blacks are criminals, all whites are not racists, all Mexicans are not illegal and all Muslims are not terrorists. Until you truly understand this and stop judging people before getting to know them things won’t change. I understand most of you may not have friends […]
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