Tag: America
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ROE V WADE- RAGE.
I was not going to write anything about this. I was simply going to rage and keep raging on my various timelines on social media. After all, I am not American nor do I live in America, nor do I have any plans of visiting America any time soon, or at this stage, ever, but…
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46. NOT JUST ANOTHER WEDNESDAY
I didn’t think we’d make it to today without further incident. Three Wednesdays before this, the world witnessed an insurrection incited by the president of the United States. The Wednesday after that, said president was being impeached in a most bi-partisan effort and this Wednesday, a new president has been successfully inaugurated as the next…
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Starbucks | Black Faces In White Spaces
At 4:35 p.m on the 12th of April, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson walked into Starbucks in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, to wait for a mate with whom they were meeting. They’d asked the manager to use the bathroom, but were denied so they waited for their mate to turn up. At 4:37 p.m the…
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Shithole Countries, The West & The Media
In a bipartisan meeting about immigration policy in the White House, donald trump asked why the United States allows immigrants from “all these shithole countries”, (in reference to African countries and Haiti) instead of immigrants from countries like Norway. Basically, immigrants from predominantly white countries are preferable to those from predominantly Black countries in his…
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Black. Lives. Matter- Our Darkest Hour Yet
If this is the the time you tell me all lives matter- don’t. For until Black Lives Matter, your all lives matter chant is ignorant and counter productive because until you understand that all lives will only matter when Black Lives do, we cannot have a conversation. Black people are being murdered by men in law enforcement,…
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Charleston
When we ask ourselves days, weeks, months, years later, what happened in Charleston, the words to articulate it will be there on the tips of our tongues, but it will be hard to speak them, because to do so would be to understand and to understand would be to accept. And accept we cannot. Yet the words…
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FERGUSON
Last week whilst watching the news about the on goings in Ferguson Missouri, someone asked me why I cared about any of it. Her reasons; I don’t live in America, I am not American, so why should I care about what is going on there. How she walked away unscathed I don’t know, but my…
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Michelle Obama and the Fashion Industry.
So, Barack Obama was sworn into office, he took his oath and his speech made history and blah, blah, blah. All that was nice but then we get to the real issue; Who will Michelle Obama be wearing, day and night? I mean this was the crux of the matter really. Forget that it was…
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A prayer for Aurora.
Though we may never know the depths your loss, We feel your pain. We may not have enough words of comfort, We send you a hug. We may not fill the void, We send you our love. The world prays for you. You are in our thoughts. And may God grant you the fortitude to…