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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- Jan 5, 2021
- 7 min
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...
- Mar 31, 2020
- 8 min
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...
- Mar 19, 2020
- 7 min
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...
- Mar 3, 2020
- 9 min
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....
- Feb 18, 2020
- 6 min
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...
- Feb 11, 2020
- 7 min
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...
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
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...
- Jul 15, 2019
- 8 min
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...
- Jul 9, 2019
- 4 min
"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...