resistance

  • 25-Year-Old American Jailed for Tweet Criticizing Zimbabwean Leader Robert Mugabe

    A young white American woman is finding her life held in the balance by an African dictator. Twenty-five-year-old New Jersey native Martha O’Donovan is accused of calling the 93-year-old president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, a “selfish & sick man” in a Twitter post that showed him with a catheter, and is facing 20 years in…

  • ‘Aloha Also Means Goodbye’: Hawaii Gives Trump the Trolling He Deserves

    Because President Donald Trump built his political career on the racist “Birther” theory claiming that former U.S. President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, Hawaii had an answer for the 45th POTUS when he touched down in Obama’s home state Friday. Trump was greeted at the airport with signs reading “Welcome to…

  • No Romance Without … Resistance?

    “People have to start respecting the vagina. Until every man is fighting for our rights, we should consider stopping having sex.” —Janelle Monáe text Come again? In a recent interview with Marie Claire, singer Janelle Monáe discussed her ideas when it comes to participating in resistance. I’m not going to lie: As a hot-blooded, fully…

  • Underground: A Stellar Slave Tale Even if You’re Slaved Out

    Whenever I hear skinfolk exclaim that they are exhausted by slave-related stories, my immediate reaction traditionally is to extend to them the invitation to shut their black asses up. About a year ago, though, I inadvertently behaved like the kind of people I have written about. The kind who more or less profess to be…

  • White Advice for Black Protesters

    Hello, angry black people! We, the members of the white delegation, have recently noticed an undercurrent of restlessness among the Negro population. As part of those outreach efforts, I have been dispatched here to teach the proper way to voice displeasure about the state of race relations in America before this discontent grows into a…