Can a man die of oxygen deprivation if there’s a strong, heavy knee placed on his neck for 9 (oh, just give and take, the killings haven’t even slowed down yet, homeys) minutes? Or must we dig for alternative causes like all the ills that black folks have been heir to and victim-blamed for throughout these last great American centuries—drugs, poor self-care, poverty, despair, lack of faith in the SYSTEM and the MAN, systemic denigration [note the intended pun! The word means ‘to blacken’!] and devaluation—till we come up with something resembling business as usual.
Category: Political Blackness
The Three O-s
I will express strong love for Obstinate Older Oaklike men with thinning hair (as long as it’s not orange); I will let my heart flutter a little now and then; and I will even cry as I smile or laugh like a fool. The latter might happen at 7 pm CST tonight when my president addresses the nation.
On Arundhati Roy, from the writer of Love’s Garden….
“The targets of the dual assault of communal fascism and neo-liberalism are the poor and the minority communities (who, as time goes by are gradually being impoverished.) As neoliberalism drives its wedge between the rich and the poor, between India Shining and India, it becomes increasingly absurd for any mainstream political party to pretend to represent the interests of both the rich and the poor, because the interests of one can only be represented at the cost of the other.”
Read Love’s Garden for free in the next two months
Life’s a story about a journey. I’ve been on a few lately, and have reported about some. But stories have their journeys too. As I’ve been traveling, so has my debut novel, Love’s Garden https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3121058904637971&ref=watch_permalink Today I write to invite you, friends and readers, to read Love’s Garden FOR FREE, in the next two months, courtesy my excellent publisher Aubade Publishing, and NetGalley. https://www.netgalley.com/widget/268442/redeem/9ca1d204d8261cc444af4980ea46301368971a3b447503879f429055fe90e79c Oh, these are tough times https://fortune.com/2020/07/12/work-from-home-coronavirus-time-distortion/ But Stories are what will get us through the shadows and searchlights of History So I invite to join me in the recent legs of my journey as a writer,…
Race and America; Political Blackness 2
I Can’t Breathe
One Planet, Only One 
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