“Isn’t it amazing we can drive down Joseph Lowry and across Ralph David Abernathy??” “We can fly into Hartsfield-JACKSON and am welcomed home by that little Black child at the top of the escalators…Our history is everywhere.” Remnants of a conversation I had with a friend while I was home. It reverberated through my mind … More Selma, Atlanta, And Standing on Giants
Halloween is coming. And rather than that eliciting excitement and child-like joy at promise of publicly acceptable cosplay and free sugary treats, I’m holding my breath waiting for some celebrity PR statement claiming they didn’t know Blackface (or other forms of cultural appropriation/insensitivity) was still unacceptable in this here post-Racial America. Last night, innocently enough … More The Scarlett Johanssoning of Grace Jones
Now I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t watch Black in America pt. I…I didn’t like it from jump because they (CNN) felt the need to interview only those students at HBCU universities and an HBCU student is not living in an accurate depiction of America, that’s not my opinion, thats FACT. I believe … More Black in America II
Sincerely, Jess 