How California’s historical role in slavery impacts present — California officially became a state in 1850. Despite what you’ve heard, California did indeed participate in slavery within its borders, including labor imported into the territory and via slave catching. Even more recently, California — like all states in their own ways and to varying degrees — participated in the…

What happens when nation states no longer matter? Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of conscience about their responsibility to self-proclaimed refugees and asylum seekers. In Europe, this struggle is playing out in the five year long border crisis in Greece and the backlash Britain’s interior minister received for acknowledging that the country’s workforce has too many low…

Colonizers Attempt to Wash Their Hands of Responsibility? By now, you’ve seen the viral video of Hilary Fordwich telling Don Lemon that reparations need to start with Africa. Fordwich went on to say reparations are due to the 2,000 British troops who died getting Britain out of its slave trade…

Love it or hate it, the Black Lives Matter movement has been the most prolific social justice effort since the Negro civil rights era. People around the world and especially donors in the U.S. saw the movement (BLM) and the organization (Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation/BLMGNF) as solutions to…

About Negro Disenfranchisement: Don’t Serve It! END IT! — [This article was originally published via LinkedIn] In August of 2019, an esteemed colleague and non-profit leader asked me to speak to a group convened to address community violence, violence prevention, and divestment from American Negro communities. To address those needs, I wrote the piece you are about to read. …

Amalgamation is erasure. — I don’t use the term “people of color” nor “BIPOC;” and you shouldn’t either. I don’t use “BIPOC” nor “people of color” because once it’s uttered, it erases the truth about extent of harms and history of a people/place. These amalgamations of unrelated peoples compromise the accuracy of the ways…

How Many is Too Many? Early this week, Gallup released a new poll about how satisfied Americans are with the management of U.S. immigration policy. The poll revealed that the percentage of Americans who are “dissatisfied out of a desire for less immigration” has doubled in just two years of the Biden administration — ballooning…

Clarifying the Origin and Purpose of Black History Month Black History Month is a time of high regard for the United States. Yet every year, some organization or governmental body wets the bed in their efforts to “honor” Black History Month. In week one of Black History Month 2023, the…

Guilt fuels this generation’s “anything goes” DEIA It’s often said that the political pendulum swings in extremes. We’re certainly seeing that extreme swing in the most recent version of “diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism” (DEIA). This generation’s version of DEIA is an “anything goes” initiative. It is destroying us all. …