trump pardons
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Black Folks Who Need to be Pardoned to Offset Trump’s White Clemency Spree
On Tuesday, President Trump went on a pardoning spree and granted clemency to 11 convicted criminals. And I’m not mad at him. Look, every president does it. But they usually take the sucker’s route and wait until the last day of their second term to pardon a shit-ton of people on their way out the…
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Black People Aren’t Stupid: The False Notion That Kanye and Kim Are Helping Trump Win Black Voters
Although I am rarely amazed by racism, privilege or America in general, when it comes to the audacity of whiteness, I am sometimes astounded at white people’s perception of black people. I often marvel at the Caucasian notion of our inherent simplemindedness; the idea that dangling any dancing black puppet in front of the Negro…