Preface: Race isn’t a real thing. The system and larger cultural zeitgeist don’t actually care about your ancestry, the .1% of genetics that distinguish you (and the smaller portion of that we identify as race), or personal peculiarities caused by your biology. The culture and system do, however, pretend to, and, in some cases, evenContinue reading “On the Dissonance of Being a Field and House Nigger at the Same Time”
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Sometimes the Only Adult in the Room Kills All Their Kids
When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was 21 years old. I remember having two feelings about it through the drunken haze of being 21, neither of them good: Fear – aren’t most of the people down there poor and/or black? This is going to be nightmarish; no one cares about them. Confusion – I get thatContinue reading “Sometimes the Only Adult in the Room Kills All Their Kids”
The Drowned Rat Gospel Choir 