On 9/20/2018, @DJChubbESwagg exclaimed: "THERE IS A WHITE WOMAN CURATING THE HIP HOP PART OF THE NMAAHC SMITHSONIAN?!?!?!?!?! WHO LET THIS SHIT HAPPEN!?!?!?!" igniting a small firestorm of controversy which involved a surprisingly large number of Black people defending said curating White woman.  The curator in question is named Timothy Anne Burnside. Burnside has been … Continue reading Maybe that White woman shouldn’t be curating the Hip Hop exhibit at the Smithsonian? →

Black people bring something irreducible to the study of ourselves that no university can teach.

When Eve Fairbanks wrote Well-Off Millennials Are All Julia Salazar. I Wish We Weren’t. for Buzzfeed, she was a graduate of Yale with a bachelor's degree in political philosophy. But, might she have been better off as a Mumbai street child? What heights might she have attained if she had grown up as an orphan who … Continue reading Rich millennials are suffering and poor people are to blame →

A few weeks ago Shaun King published an article on Jacobin magazine's website entitled Why Bernie Sanders's history of racial justice activism matters.. Of course his racial justice activism “matters.” It mattered to Black students who wanted to inhabit the University of Chicago’s dormitories on a non-segregated basis. It mattered to Black Chicago Public Schools students … Continue reading Why Bernie Sanders’s civil rights activism doesn’t (really) matter →

This, my people, is where we find ourselves this very moment. History has been mis-written in our minds to make it seem that full integration is the only road open to us, to make it seem like this is the only road we have taken; that this is the only road we know how to take.

Donald Trump is the distilled essence of your ideological heritage and the rest of us are curious as to why you think we're fool enough to believe these high sounding lies.

The reasoning which opposes the demolishers in this debate defies reason.

Donald Trump has been blowing things up. But no, this is not quite right, as Donald Trump is just some fat septuagenarian. He, as himself, has as much power to rain fire from the sky as I do. This time last year, he couldn't have blown up his own toilet without getting the approval of … Continue reading Pending Thought: The Pax Americana is eating itself. →

Ideology is what is left behind when thought has vacated the premises.

I do not doubt the reality and power of artistic empathy. But any true empathy would have shown Schutz that as a White person, she is part of the cabal that created the bloated, broken body in her painting. As someone for whom this act was ostensibly done, her place in the story was in the barn where Emmett was tortured and murdered, with the lynchers, not in the funeral home with his mother.