The protests against the closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic are dangerous displays of selfishness and privilege — Americans all across the U.S. are protesting for their state governments to re-open all businesses that were closed because of the threat COVID-19 presents. Let me say that again: Americans are protesting against being instructed to stay home because they believe their rights are being violated. What rights? …

This global pandemic will prevent the systems in place globally from going “back to normal” — Coronavirus. The virus that’s sweeping the globe, shutting down city after city and country after country wherever it shows up. K-12 schools are being canceled indefinitely, and college courses are all moving to the online option. Everyone is being told to stay home, businesses everywhere are taking a massive profit…

How have black people have been deemed as inferior by white supremacy while being interwoven in the personal lives of white people? — The services ‘provided’ by black people via enslavement have always been an integral part of the progression of white societies around the globe. Black people being held as slaves is what made America as prosperous as it is today. Two hundred fifty years of free labor will do that. …

How white supremacist’s historical lust for global power is their present-day undoing — There is this idea in white supremacist circles that white people are being ‘forced’ to mesh with non-white cultures. This is resulting in the shrinking of the ‘purely white’ population of white people. …

“Stop and Frisk” cannot be explained away by Mike Bloomberg as an ‘oops, my bad’, here’s why. — On February 13, 2020, Michael Bloomberg issued an ‘apology’ for “Stop-and-Frisk” saying: “There is one aspect of approach that I deeply regret, the abuse of police practice called stop and frisk. I defended it, looking back, for too long because I didn’t understand then the unintended pain it was causing…

One solution to white supremacy is delegitimizing it through the power of education. — If America were a tree, white supremacy would be its roots.

Trying to gauge someone’s health simply based on what they look like doesn’t mean you’re observant — it means you’re an asshole — As I was mindlessly scrolling through Twitter, I came across this tweet from PageSix: I didn’t think anything of it. She’s on vacation on a beach in a bikini… what was the news? Then, I made the mistake of reading through the replies. Some comments were friendly and positive; I was relieved to see those.

Dating in 2020 means your fingers are so very tired of swiping — Swipe right. Swipe left. Swipe left. Swipe rig- no, swipe left. Swipe right. Swipe left. Swipe right. Swipe left. Swipe right. Swipe right. We’ve all been there. Stuck in the endless vortex of swiping on one of the big three: Tinder, OkCupid, or Bumble. …

The idea that black people wearing our hair natural is an open invitation for us to be pet needs to go — Yesterday while mindlessly scrolling on Twitter, I came across a video of a black woman having her natural hair petted by her overly-curious white coworkers. Not only is this extraordinarily unprofessional and an invasion of the black woman’s personal space, but she was just stood there with an awkward expression…