We’re Terrifying? Be Terrifying! — The last month I’ve started writing and stopped. I’ve wavered over what to say and how to say it. You see, the “it” has been a feeling. The precise nature of “it” hadn’t been so clear. Until today. I want Black women to seize the world. I want us to…

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…

Redlining 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…

A 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…

Their 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…

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. …

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…

What 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…

A 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…