Heptagon – Part 4: The Revolving Door Cycle That Nourishes & Empowers Poverty
PROLOGUE When certain unnameable ‘incidents’ (fights, domestic violence, arguments over petty matters, generalized “ratchetness,” as some of us like to say, et al) happen in Somewhere USA in the Black community, many of us try hard not to be...Heptagon: Part 3 – Black Men, We Loves You But…
“I loves you but I ain’t gonna be your fool.” If anyone in here is old enough to remember The Flintstones, Ann Margrock (real life “Ann Margret”) was the subject of an episode where she sang this song and totally killed it. Well, this...Heptagon: Part 2 – The American Black Woman & Looks-ism
Most people in the world are willing to admit that the European “standards of beauty” are at the root of everything from self-hatred to being singled-out for special treatment based on looks, or at least the perception of how certain people look when...Heptagon: Part 1 – The Death of An American Black Woman #sandrabland
It was Maya Angelou, I believe, who was quoted as saying “Every man and his dog thinks they can run a road up a Black woman’s behind.” The more I think about the death of #SandraBland, the more it saddens and sickens me to think of the many ways her...Just in Time for the Holiday Season
First it was the spooked out “ghost sheets with the pointy heads,” now it’s “brass bathing suits and tin pan foil hats with big goat-butting horns sticking out of them.”