Tag: racism
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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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That Nina Movie.
Somewhere in heaven Nina Simone is having deep conversations with whomever cares to listen about this movie. I bet she is not happy about it either. I am not happy about it, a lot of us are not happy about it but here we are and Hollywood is at it again. A lot of outrage has…
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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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Essence- Black Lives Matter
Fifty years ago today Malcolm X was murdered in cold blood. Fifty years on, and we have not move on from where he left us, still fighting the same fight, still trying to make sure people know our lives, Black Lives, Matter. I waited a long time to read this issue of Essence, we get it…
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Mediocrity In Vogue
If it seems like I am always ragging on Vogue, its because I expect them to do better, to know better, and if they are as fashion forward as they want to believe they are, want to convince their readers that they are, they should re-define their definition of fashion, step outside their comfort zone…
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Footballers and their shenanigans
Footballers. We can’t hold them to the highest of moral standards because when it comes to moral fibre some skipped that line in favour of stupidity instead. Google football scandals. The proof is in the pudding. The latest shenanigans is starring one John Terry and his co-star Ashley Cole. You might have heard of two…