Yesterday, the NAACP had a building bombed in Colorado. More headlines in America connected “terrorism” to the shooting in France, while the bombing on our home soil was referred to as an “incident” (noting, of course, there were not as many headlines in America about the NAACP terrorism as there were to the tragedy in…
Tag: ferguson
White Silence #whiteviolence (a poem)
I was at the [too docile] march on Washington today (which, as a 25-year-old in twenty-first century America, theory says shouldn’t have been necessary for the reasons it is – but that will be another story). Many thoughts running over my mind, including the question by some. You probably have asked it yourself. This is…
the art of lynching
Many thoughts culminating in my mind in response to the disappointment of the grand jury reaffirming our institutionalized flaws and the recent death of Tamir Rice, the dragged out review of incidents surrounding John Crawford’s wrongful public murder, and the social media response. Perhaps it’s a narrow view to have, but to be white in…
Sharkey Speaks 