So now I’m curious… would you have just eaten the chicken and moved on, or would seeing it seasoned in the sink have completely killed your appetite too? 👀
Helps yes. Heals no.
Lemme cook, helps in the sense that they help you understand your troubles by breaking into better bits. Paving a way for you to work your way out of your situation. Therapy has never healed nobody. It's not medicine. You heal you.
Huey P. Newton said, “I do not expect the white media to create positive Black male images.” A white woman strangled her three children to death, and yet the lone Black male juror who refused to acquit her is now being cast as the problem. She is given context, sympathy, illness, and complexity. He is given suspicion.
She committed the violence, but he becomes the villain for refusing to excuse it.
Here’s something Black folks have long understood, in the United States a Black man does not need to commit violence to be treated violently.
Jalen Duren turned down 5 year, $190 million contract after the world witnessed his performance in the playoffs, whoever is in his circle is failing him.
Proximity to Blackness is not Blackness. The only thing that makes you black is being a Black person. This is so easy even a child who hasn’t started school yet can understand
The teaser trailer ‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING,’ a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.
Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.
In theaters this October.
We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need.
We never ask why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.
Honestly seeing the eviction process play out has taught me to stay away from “friends”who think support is just phone calls.
You’re waiting for the marshal and they’re on the line wanting a play by play. “What are you gonna do next, girl?”
It’s really annoying as well. No other culture is copied more than Black American culture and it’s something they will deny while simultaneously copying and leeching off of it.