"Had Cool like a Vault has money"

by | Nov 10, 2006 | Announcements | 2 comments

Ed Bradley died two days ago of leukemia. In writing about him, Wil Haygood used the quote I cite above. There’s a certain type of gaze that comes with living life as a black man. Unless you’re in a city like Detroit, there’s never a time you...

On self-hatred

by | Nov 4, 2006 | Black People Mythology, Neoliberalism | 2 comments

There’s a meme that’s been going around black communities at least as long as black people have been organizing against white supremacy, blaming black failure on self-hatred. If we were to just “unify.” If we were able to somehow figure out how...