Exposing the Covert Mechanisms that Perpetuate Inequality and How Awareness Sparks the Passage to Liberation — For my youth as a Caribbean person in America, I lived in New York and a bit in Florida. I was super naive about racism then — a child. I spent most of my formative years and careers in the Caribbean and worldwide. When I moved back to the USA…

Last year, I arrived in Fulton County, made famous via Trump mug shots, to vote. I told my wife, “let’s go to Buckhead where there are a lot of rich white people. The lines should be shorter there.” The lines wrapped around the block. So we ended up in another…

Dark Origins and Unscientific Foundations — I was listening to this podcast, Seeing White, about the invention of race, or at least blackness and whiteness. I have many Portuguese friends, and I do not blame them for their adventurer and inventor of dehumanizing people by “race,” Gomes Eanes de Zurara. He was a Portuguese biographer from…

They Are a Trick in the Mind of A Mad Person — I got this email below from Greenbookglobal, a website that advises black travelers where to go where they will feel safe from crazy white-believing people. It plays on the original—The Negro Motorist Green Book. During the era of Jim Crow laws (1936–1966), a black postal worker, Victor Hugo Green authored…

One morning, I got to work and met one of my colleagues at the entrance to the building, heading out on a field tour. All others had their safety vest on, and he did not. I asked him where is his vest. He said it was in the office. I…

This Article May Contain Spoilers for the Netflix Movie. — Blaxploitation is the tone and game of this movie, “They Cloned Tyrone.” It’s a Get-out-ish class of fictional movie about the adventures of a never-smile-drugs-selling hustler, a fur-collared-coat-in-the-Summer pimp, and a brave and beautiful escort/adventurer/Nancy Drew-esk investigator as they wrestle with a secret underground laboratory in the ghetto town of…

How Could America Swing This One? — I asked a family member steeped in hours per day of MSNBC news, “What if Donald Trump went to jail? How do we make that work?” He got mad at me, and I wrote an article about the need to ease off when there is trauma. He is a proud…

The Indigenous Name of Africa Before the White People Arrived — White domination has taken so much from the world. I figured in the recesses of my mind that “Africa” was likely a white domination creation, but now I know. Africa, often called the cradle of civilization, is a continent with a rich and diverse history spanning to the beginning of…

Can we agree that colonialism in the form it had was bad? — The nightmare of colonization spans continents and centuries, leaving deep imprints on societies, cultures, and even the environment. It becomes evident that the principles underpinning the doctrine of discovery and colonization have had lasting effects, often leading to thought-provoking metaphors. I recall our fear of an invasion of locusts one…