Cosby: Convicted. . . . Me: Conflicted.
Sometimes I don’t want to write about certain things; even those things that I feel that I should write about. For instance, the Bill Cosby conviction is BIG in the […]
STEP OUT OF THE RING: A Word About Colorism
As the story goes, when my Grandmother on my father’s side would walk into church, the preacher and every deacon would whisper under their breaths: “Amen.” When she was a […]
Abracadabra: The Playbook for White, Wealthy Males Makes Accountability Disappear
I’m seriously going to vomit the next time a White male is gifted with the “boys will be boys” excuse, as if having a Caucasian scrotum is the new hall pass for despicable behavior.
The Power of Empathy: How Empathy Unfairly Benefited Brock Turner, but Can Save Us
In January, when most of us were still accidentally writing 2015 instead of 2016, and most of the Stanford students had recently arrived back on campus after winter break, two […]
Fear of the Bogeyman and Bathroom Politics:
During the potty-training period with my kids, I was obsessed with where they used the bathroom. Sometimes it was on me; a #2 in the pool (sorry); in my ficus […]
The Holtzclaw Case Illustrates the Need for #BlackLivesMatter
How can people be confused about the need for the Black Lives Matter movement? When Black lives are taken, threatened, attacked or damaged you must look to Black-centric news feeds to learn about it.
In the Case of Cosby
Where there’s smoke there’s fire. There was more smoke in the Cosby case than a BBQ pit on the fourth of July. 45 women have accused him. 45! A […]