Aug 26Member-onlyDid You Know That Canada Has An Emancipation Day?August 1, 1834 — The Day Slavery Ended in the British Colonies — August 1, 1834. Black people in Canada are freed by the Slavery Abolition Act by the British Parliament. Free. Not equal. Black Canadians are still waiting for equity in Canada. Why am I talking about Emancipation day today in late August? Because it’s not a day that feels important in…Emancipation6 min readEmancipation6 min read
Aug 25Member-onlyRacism in Canada’s Housing CrisisRedlining in Canada — If you’ve been reading me for a while you might know about the Housing Affordability Lab (HAL) my co-founders and I are working to build. You’d think we deliberately chose the name of the AI from Space, 2001. We didn’t. My off-spring born in the 2000s did, movie unknown to…Housing5 min readHousing5 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Aug 21Member-onlySmile & Stab — Exposing The Racism Hidden Behind Shiny Happy LanguageA Closer Look at Racism in Polite Disguise — We wield words to combat, endorse, or veil racism. Is being polite contradictory in the fight against racism? Society teaches us that creating discomfort is considered impolite. Scratch the record!! Think I was dreaming there for a minute. We live in a racist world. We need to fight racism. And…Racism7 min readRacism7 min read
Aug 19Member-onlyWhy I’m Done Working For Canadian CorporationsTheir Racist Spaces Aren’t Safe For Me — I worked for the new subsidiary of one of the world’s most respected banks when they moved into the Canadian market. When they hired me into the role — I don’t really remember the nature of the job anymore. That may be because I worked so hard to forget my…Racism5 min readRacism5 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Aug 15Member-onlyCan Community Wealth and Empowerment Fight Anti-Black Racism?The True Agenda of ‘Law and Order’ Politics — Amanda Marcotte — Salon Republicans aren’t for law and order in the literal sense, as their likely presidential nominee is a rapacious criminal who is facing 78 felony counts so far. …Racism4 min readRacism4 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Aug 8Member-onlyWhat Do Black People Owe Whites Who Want to Invite Us Over For Dinner?To be honest, it may be too soon for dinners and get-togethers because I’m ragingly angry — I wanted to write something about the rage I feel that I can’t seem to quit, even though I already wrote about it here. I wanted to examine this rage, and it is rage, not anger. Dictionary.com defines Rage: angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full…White Supremacy6 min readWhite Supremacy6 min read
Published inAn Injustice!·Aug 5Member-onlyMy Rage Against the Entrenched Criminality of the White WorldWhat do we get from not calling out the lies? — I’ve been trying for days to write about information I learned from a story written by Jonathan Poletti’. He talks about the lies that whites made up in the bible to justify slavery Maybe this was well known, but not to me. So, I did what writers do, I wrote…Whiteness9 min readWhiteness9 min read
Jul 31Member-onlyINIKO, A Voice that Demands to be HeardA Legend Making Waves In Front of Our Eyes I’m editing two stories that should have come before this. But like writer, Linda Caroll recently pointed out, I’m an author in real danger of turning them from gold into straw. Yep. A reverse Rumpelstiltskin. So, I’m putting them on the…Emerging Artists3 min readEmerging Artists3 min read
Published inAfroSapiophile·Jul 28Member-onlyRaping Male Slaves Was As Common As Raping WomenWhy Does the Right Wing Really Want to Bring Back Slavery? — Ron DeSantis wants us to know slavery was beneficial to Black people. Okay Ron. You want to go there. Let’s talk about how slavery benefitted whites. But let’s go beyond the usual economics and get into the sex. Slavery allowed white men, women, overseers, and the slave ship crews to…Slavery7 min readSlavery7 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Jul 23Member-onlyAll-White Juries — A Symptom of America’s Deep-Seated Racial BeliefsWhat’s in these whites that they knowingly let murderers go free — The history of racial bias in the American judicial system is deeply troubling, particularly when it comes to the role of all-white juries in cases involving racial violence. …White Supremacy5 min readWhite Supremacy5 min read
