Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 14Member-onlyHomeBAnx — $10, 000 Pitch DayYou can’t slow down when you’ve only got three minutes — I’ll tell you straight up, I flubbed the pitch. We had 3 minutes to get through six slides and make our case for ten thousand dollars. This was the qualifying round and I screwed up. I was accepted into a Women’s entrepreneur program. For eight months we explored marketing, finance…Startup5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 12Member-onlyEaster’s Coming. Child Slavery Has Gone Up. What You Can Do.Buy ethical, slave-free chocolate. It does make a difference. — Easter’s coming. That means chocolate for a lot of us. I want to ask you to not buy Cadbury (Mondelēz owns Cadbury) brands. Right now they are embroiled in yet another scandal of using children to harvest their chocolate. They can’t deny it. It’s caught on video. It hasn’t been…Humanity3 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 12Member-onlyTen Things That Make Me Go Yikes!Here’s my list in no particular order — Misty Rae I couldn’t come up with thirty things, so I stuck with ten things that make me feel gross. Spit. I can't stand it. Can’t handle the word, the action, the thought. It was an Edward James Olmos flick that made me this way. I blame him. Spiders. Maybe…Racism3 min read
Published in An Injustice!·Apr 11Member-only789, 000 Black Canadians Suffer From Severe Depression *I’m one of 65.8% of Black Canadians with severe symptoms — Author’s Update - April 12, 2022, 15:35: My headline is wrong. I’m not certain what I was looking at when I pulled together my figures, so I apologize for this glaring error. Statistics Canada puts Canada’s Black population in 2016 at nearly 1.2 million. 65.8% of 1.2 …Mental Health7 min read
Apr 9Member-onlyBlackface Minstrel ShowsBlackface Minstrel Shows Black Face Minstrel Shows In Canada How Canadian parents taught their children to be racist I wonder that white parents aren’t arrested for child abuse. Teaching their children racism, giving them toys to instruct on Black inferiority as compared to whites. But talk of anti-racism, as in Critical Race Theory, and the same parents lose their shit. I’d love one of these…Blackface5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 6Member-onlyThe Oscars Weren’t Just About Will SmithJay z and Beyonce walked the red carpet across a picket line — It’s always good to have people in your corner if you’re fortunate. The comedian Monique recently received a long overdue apology from director Lee Daniels. …Humanity5 min read
Published in AfroSapiophile·Apr 4Member-onlyDo Good Guys Kill? Or Slap?Will Smith and Chris Rock — I know. Not another story about the slap heard ‘round the world. I promise you, Smith is more like the launch point rather than the destination. A lot of incredible Medium writers have toiled over the slap story. Johnny Silvercloud explored Smith’s narcissism and asked poignant questions of Black people…Television6 min read
Apr 2Member-onlyThe Largest Discrimination Lawsuit in California HistoryOr Why Tesla Moved to Texas — On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, the California Department of Fair Housing and Labour filed the state’s largest discrimination lawsuit against the luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla. Black workers make up 10% of Tesla’s workforce. Fifteen thousand workers have recounted stories about segregated workspaces. Being told their workspace was the plantation. …Elon Musk4 min read
Apr 1Member-onlyWhy I won’t buy a TeslaSupport Black Lives Don’t Buy a Tesla — I’m buying a new car, either an EV (Electric Vehicle) or a Hybrid (which works with both electricity and gas). I am not buying a Tesla. Once upon a time, a Tesla was my dream car. But I don’t support any company that fails to do right by Black people…Racism2 min read
Published in An Injustice!·Mar 30Member-onlyWhat Battlestar Galactica’s Ressurection Chamber and Earth Have in CommonAnd how a movie about vampires fits in — If you don’t know the tv show Battlestar Galactica, the reboot series with Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackoff from 2004, humans, rather, a human, Dr. Daniel Graystone created war machines. Those machines became slaves to serve humanity. The slaves rebelled and warred with the humans. Same old same old…Death5 min read
