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Hello all, and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! I hope you all have been well. I want to cordially invite you all to join me on my new journey: https://professherspeaks.com It would be an absolute honor to share this next step with you all. In love and the light of Blackness… C.
Cheslie Kryst and the Myth of An Evolved America, A Black Female Perspective
Cheslie Kryst and the Myth of An Evolved America, A Black Female Perspective
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On Lauren Smith-Fields-- A Black Female Rant
On Lauren Smith-Fields– A Black Female Rant
An unsettling fact made the news before George Zimmerman’s “not guilty” verdict. The fact was that a slain, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin lay in the morgue for days before authorities notified anyone of his death (he was identified after Martin’s father filed a Missing Person’s report). The information circulated from empowered social media sources elucidated the glaring indifference to which…
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Goodbye, for now
Amidst what would become the worst four years of my life, I started “Whispers of a Womanist” as a way to keep the fire burning of a purpose that promised to become a dream deferred if not engaged. I could not have imagined what blogging would do for my life. What began as whispers in my mind became the proud proclamations of culturally-speculative dialogue, when my car and cafes scattered…
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The Difference between Revolutionary and Evolutionary Discourse
The Difference between Revolutionary and Evolutionary Discourse
The first decision I made as an adult was to attend Howard University. The experience has remained one of the most life-changing and significant choices of my adult life. I make this point to contextualize my dissent from the actions of Generation Z executed at Howard University last year and employ said efforts to illustrate the distinction between revolutionary and evolutionary discourse. The…
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On Anita's "hill"
On Anita’s “hill”
Just before Christmas 1964, in the weeks before what would be a turbulent and transcendent year, is where R&B pioneer, singer-songwriter, and businessman Sam Cooke would meet his end. Though documented and replayed countless times, the events of that evening are still met with scrutiny by those who loved him and others who are simply learned in the ways of the world. However, it was not enough to…
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Harlem and the Hoax of Representation
Harlem and the Hoax of Representation
One glance onto the current media landscape reveals countless shows featuring all black or predominately black casts. The current lineup is seemingly a representational dream come true, with more black faces than ever before dominating the small screen. As elucidated with the Obama campaign, and most recently through elected officials like Eric Adams and Kamala Harris, representation, or black…
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January 6th: One Year Later
January 6th: One Year Later
It’s been a year since the riot at the capitol where white supremacists publicly unraveled white superiority for the world to see. I cringe writing this sentence because images of barbaric white murderers alongside the mutilated corpses of black men, women, and children that ornament American history have illustrated this point for centuries yet have fallen on deaf ears of a nation bound to…
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Cake and Crumbs: A Rebuttal to "Behold Barack Antoinette"
Cake and Crumbs: A Rebuttal to “Behold Barack Antoinette”
Amidst the delta variant and a Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, The New York Times published an article by Maureen Dowd, which criticized former president President Obama for his sixtieth birthday bash in the Berkshires. The article, while inappropriate, was not entirely unexpected. The African-adjacent who possess an elevated understanding of racism understand that the Obama administration…
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Respect,A Black Female Perspective
Respect,A Black Female Perspective
Admittedly, my sole interest in the Aretha Franklin biopic was to illustrate why biopics are bad for black people. Biopics complicate the inherently contentious relationship that the black collective has with the past. Though our history does not begin with abduction, this abduction marks the beginning of our historical mutilation. It marks an integral moment of our historical transition from…
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Homophobia or Hegemony?
Homophobia: An accusation too frequently cast onto the black canvass. The term’s use illustrates how the systemically empowered attain the ability to weaponize terms, festering the social and systemic wounds of oppressed people. The irony here is that the same system that breeds ignorance in the oppressed caste reserves the right to weaponize said ignorance at their discretion. Rapper DaBaby…
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Dining While Black, A Black Female Perspective
Dining While Black, A Black Female Perspective
Online review platforms such as Yelp and Google operate on the premise that the average dining experience delivers the respect and grace consistent with hospitality mythos. This expectation, of course, operates under the default of a white perspective. While I am sure that those of my collective have encountered outstanding service at times, I am not confident that “outstanding” or even…
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My Black is Brown: A Black Female Perspective in Prose
My Black is Brown: A Black Female Perspective in Prose
There are few phrases as triggering and colloquially violent as the term “black and brown.” The term typically precedes a discussion pertaining to some systemic or social wrong rooted in physiognomy. Moreover, the term suggests a similarity between the experiences of black and non-black people of color. The issues here are plentiful; however, the most significant are the stark differences between…
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My Black Is Brown
My Black Is Brown
My black is brown My ancestor’s blood marks the ground on which many walk and talk over an obscured memory that separates wrong from right black from white and brown the silent sea speaks of stories unheard by the unseen stories that run like bleeding rivers black like the brown backs of those beaten niggerized by colonial forces that turned mom and pop into…
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Passing the Baton: Flo Jo, Sha’Carri Richardson and Inheriting “Runnin’ Space”
Passing the Baton: Flo Jo, Sha’Carri Richardson and Inheriting “Runnin’ Space”
Al Joyner, after the untimely death of his wife, the woman affectionately known as “Flo Jo,” noted that she “passed the ultimate drug test.” In the late 80s, Flo Jo would become the fastest woman in the world, a title that rightfully revealed a lifetime of hard work but engendered predictable scrutiny from anti-black adversaries. Black greatness has continuously engendered skepticism from those…
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What The Cosby's Show Us: A Black Female Perspective
What The Cosby’s Show Us: A Black Female Perspective
As a collective, black people are no strangers to sexual assault as a vindicating force to domestic terrorism. Sexual assault allegations that engendered the lynchings that ornament our past and present. We are also not strangers to how a racist society employs hyper-sexuality to stain the legacies of black greatness from Sam Cooke to Michael Jackson. Nevertheless, the racist mythos that bound…
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Chauvin and American Chauvinism
Chauvin and American Chauvinism
To offset this post, I wish to enlist a famous quotation from the late Toni Morrison’s expository catalog. In “The Nobel Lecture in Literature,” Morrison writes: “We die. That make be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives” (203). While this quotation speaks to death as life’s sole promise, I employ its message to highlight murder as fulfilling a similar…
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