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Aug 26

Did 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…

Emancipation

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Did You Know That Canada Has An Emancipation Day?
Did You Know That Canada Has An Emancipation Day?
Emancipation

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Aug 25

Racism in Canada’s Housing Crisis

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…

Housing

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Racism in Canada’s Housing Crisis
Racism in Canada’s Housing Crisis
Housing

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·Aug 21

Smile & Stab — Exposing The Racism Hidden Behind Shiny Happy Language

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…

Racism

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Smile & Stab — Exposing The Racism Hidden Behind Shiny Happy Language
Smile & Stab — Exposing The Racism Hidden Behind Shiny Happy Language
Racism

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Aug 19

Why I’m Done Working For Canadian Corporations

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…

Racism

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Why I’m Done Working For Canadian Corporations
Why I’m Done Working For Canadian Corporations
Racism

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·Aug 15

Can 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. …

Racism

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Can Community Wealth and Empowerment Fight Anti-Black Racism?
Can Community Wealth and Empowerment Fight Anti-Black Racism?
Racism

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·Aug 8

What 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 Supremacy

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What Do Black People Owe Whites Who Want to Invite Us Over For Dinner?
What Do Black People Owe Whites Who Want to Invite Us Over For Dinner?
White Supremacy

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An Injustice!

·Aug 5

My Rage Against the Entrenched Criminality of the White World

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…

Whiteness

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My Rage Against the Entrenched Criminality of the White World
My Rage Against the Entrenched Criminality of the White World
Whiteness

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Jul 31

INIKO, A Voice that Demands to be Heard

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…

Emerging Artists

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INIKO, A Voice that Demands to be Heard
INIKO, A Voice that Demands to be Heard
Emerging Artists

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AfroSapiophile

·Jul 28

Raping Male Slaves Was As Common As Raping Women

Why 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…

Slavery

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Raping Male Slaves Was As Common As Raping Women
Raping Male Slaves Was As Common As Raping Women
Slavery

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·Jul 23

All-White Juries — A Symptom of America’s Deep-Seated Racial Beliefs

What’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 Supremacy

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All-White Juries —  A Symptom of America’s Deep-Seated Racial Beliefs
All-White Juries —  A Symptom of America’s Deep-Seated Racial Beliefs
White Supremacy

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Kay Valley

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Your Black friend. Radical ideas on inequity, race & poverty. Follow on Substack: https://kayvalley.substack.com/

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