Last week, the #BlackPrivilege hash-tag gained momentum on Twitter, reportedly created as a response to the discovery of a (neglected?) tumblr blog and, perhaps, just being plain tired of having to ward off cries of “reverse-racism” whenever black people speak out loud about the lived experiences and daily microaggressions many of us have to navigate .

The general public doesn’t like to see pictures from the past. Pictures of the American holocaust, the massacres, the mass graves, the slavery and the lynch mobs. But the pictures exist and the fact that they do shows us part of the true history. This happened to many, many American citizens ancestors. This country was [...]

Speaking of mass incarceration: Wisconsin leads the U.S. in incarceration of black men. There is no debate about the disproportional amount of black (and brown) men in prison across the United States. Whether this is a direct result of the genetic predisposition to crime — which is bullshit — the fact remains that the United [...]

Okay, teachable moment aside, the truth is that in America much to the disadvantage of dark-skinned people, the Muslim religion is used to denote one’s race. Why? Because, well, Jesus was a Jew and of course everybody knows that Jesus was a white man, right? Never mind the fact that both religions are spinoffs from [...]

Yesterday I heard that a “dark-skinned suspect” was arrested in connection to the Boston Marathon bombing. I’m not sure if said “dark-skinned suspect” was arrested for the actual bombing, or if it was for sending letters with ricin — a poisonous substance — to president Obama and other political figures. Like I said, I wasn’t [...]

I missed the premiere of the Ken Burns film The Central Park Five on PBS last night. It wasn’t until a few people following me on Twitter reached out to me to see if I was watching it, that I remembered that it was due to air. But being caught up in the coverage of [...]