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    No More Idols: Bill Maher
    • Feb 1
    • 5 min
    No More Idols

    No More Idols: Bill Maher

    HBO has been a part of my life for a long time. One of the earliest shows I remember watching (that nobody else seems to remember), was...
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    2020 Kwanzaa Reflections
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 7 min
    Kwanzaa

    2020 Kwanzaa Reflections

    Last year I wrote 7 individual pieces on all the tenets of Kwanzaa to reflect on 2019 and look ahead towards 2020. As we all know, 2020...
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    No More Idols: Don't Be A Follower
    • Mar 31, 2020
    • 8 min
    No More Idols

    No More Idols: Don't Be A Follower

    There’s not a person, entity or group that I trust beyond scrutiny. Not anything at all. Not a family member, not a partner, friend, not...
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    One Of The Good Ones
    • Mar 19, 2020
    • 7 min
    Racism

    One Of The Good Ones

    Sidney is one of my best friends. I’ve known him since about 2010 or 2011 and we regularly talk about the big subjects along with the...
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    Why Are Culture Vultures In Charge Of Anything? (The Wine Taster Theorem.)
    • Mar 3, 2020
    • 9 min
    Culture

    Why Are Culture Vultures In Charge Of Anything? (The Wine Taster Theorem.)

    Wine tasting has always fascinated me. A team of experts shows up to sniff, spin, sip a bunch of wine in order to judge it’s quality....
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    How Performative Friends Enable Racists
    • Feb 18, 2020
    • 6 min
    Racism

    How Performative Friends Enable Racists

    Recently a friend of mine brought up an unfortunate recurring event in her personal life. She noticed that a certain subset of her...
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    I Cannot Stress How Much Y'all REALLY Hate Black Women
    • Feb 11, 2020
    • 7 min
    Sexism

    I Cannot Stress How Much Y'all REALLY Hate Black Women

    Last year I wrote a piece called, “Y’all Really Hate Black Women, Don’t You?” At the time it related to Chloe Bailey being cast in the...
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    No More Idols: Introduction
    • Jul 30, 2019
    • 3 min
    No More Idols

    No More Idols: Introduction

    Some years ago, back in the MySpace days, a friend I met online decided to start a hip-hop blog/page called No More Classics. It was to...
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    Fuck The Police: A Retrospective
    • Jul 16, 2019
    • 8 min
    Race

    Fuck The Police: A Retrospective

    (Originally published 8/14/2014 on brillianceisproper.tumblr.com) I am a Black man who does not like nor gets along with police. But...
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    "Y'all Really Hate Black Women, Don't You?"
    • Jul 9, 2019
    • 4 min
    Black

    "Y'all Really Hate Black Women, Don't You?"

    What is with the hatred of Black women across the board? I feel like I should be able to type that sentence and have a lot of people give...
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