Opinion
Opinion
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Blue Lives Only Matter When They Are Killing Black People
The headline for this story is really the gotdamn point. Always. Every time a Black person has been killed extrajudicially by a police officer, the Blue Lives Matter crew comes out in full force to defend policing, which in and of itself is a power structure built and steeped in racism and white supremacy. You…
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White People Don't Make No Sense
This headline is grammatically correct. In African American Vernacular English, “no” is a determiner equivalent to the thermodynamic concept of absolute zero. It is the amount of “mess” that James Brown’s papa was willing to take. It describes how much of a joke Rakim considered himself to be. In 1994, researcher Rock Master Scott, in…
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Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist, But Even If It Did…Maaaaaan, I Know Conservatives Ain’t Talkin'
First of all… In 2002, Rush Limbaugh’s puss-bucket, Bill O’Reilly, successfully used his platform on Fox News to pressure Pepsi to cancel their business relationship with legendary Atlanta rapper Ludacris and pull every single one of its ads that featured him from the airwaves. It took one day. “I’m calling for all responsible Americans to…
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Researchers Decry Declining Births in America, But What Incentives Are There for People to Have Babies?
The pandemic has helped usher in a decline in new babies being born in America, continuing a trend of diminishing birth rates that threatens the replacement levels of the country’s population. A CBS News report says data across two dozen states in the U.S. shows that a seven percent drop in births was recorded in…
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America Predicts Six More Weeks of Whiteness (at Least)
Early Tuesday morning, a corpulent, fur-covered woodchuck waddled out of its rathole burrowed beneath the surface of facts, logic and common sense. As the blinding light of truth radiated on its dust-colored rodent skin, darkening the earth beneath the feckless furball, the assembled audience could see that this long, cold winter of America’s discontent would…
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Corporate Monopolies Are a Racial Justice Issue. We Need Federal Regulation Now
From a racial justice perspective, it is important to note that all major industries in America are monopolies controlled by white owners and decision-makers. Whether it’s a single business taking over a town or entire industry or a dozen companies colluding to maintain anti-Black norms, the effects for Black people have always been the same—exclusion…
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Black Vets Weren't Surprised Military Members Stormed the Capitol. Now They Want the Department of Defense to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in Its Ranks
In 2010, while serving as an Army combat medic, I was stationed on a former Nazi-base in Western Germany. The history wasn’t inconspicuous. In fact, white soldiers were often infatuated by it. They’d sneak selfies beside a swastika embedded into a brick building not far from the barracks I called home—remnants of the Third Reich…
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Where Do We Go From Here? Why Biden Needs a Plan for Tackling White Supremacy
Wednesday’s inauguration was a breath of fresh air in many ways. We saw the swearing-in of the first woman, Black person, and South-Asian to be this country’s vice president. We saw a young and brilliant poet, Amanda Gorman, state undeniable truths about this country’s harrowing and recent past and declare powerful hopes for this country’s…
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Capitol Police Are Actually Members of a Massive Hate Group—The Fraternal Order of Police
While pundits and elected officials wonder how the Capitol Police could have allowed a group of white supremacists into the U.S. Capitol to loot some of our country’s most sensitive information and violently attack those inside, these actions actually remind us at Color Of Change that the men and women of the Capitol Police are…
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After Decades of Crime TV Shows, It’s Time We Shift the Narrative
Some of the most popular crime shows are returning with new seasons in the next few weeks, and it’s time to have an honest, serious conversation about how they are going to impact our society as so many people consume these stories about police and the criminal justice system. These addicting and familiar shows will…