In his 1983 book, Settlers: The Myth of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai provides excellent insight into the nature of racism, the White left, and the position of Black and other oppressed people in the U.S. To help us understand these domains, Sakai breaks down settler colonialism more broadly, including the U.S. as a settler-colonial state, White people as settlers, and the rest of us as people of oppressed nationalities within this settler-colonial state. The roots of this system lie in Europe’s parasitic and patriarchal ruling class, which, in its stunted mental state, disrupted societies’ inclination to consider the needs of the broad community, including the environment, and consistently placed its desire for power over others over societies’ long-term health and perpetuation.

Dr. Ibram Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” is intended to be a relatively simple and straightforward book, which is both its strength and weakness. The book begins with…

I read these electronically but they are so good I wanted the actual copies. Beginning in Vol 1 and showing how the British further developed the idea…

I was recently asked for a reading list on whiteness, race, racism (synonyms, all of them) and ended up writing a summary and synthesis of books. Whiteness and capitalism are inseparable…

bell hooks is the person I associate with connecting how capital, whiteness and masculinity act in reinforcing ways and I’m getting better at sussing that out…

This is my current reading project. My eldest son, Kufere, gave it to me for Christmas at my request. And boyeeeeee: Long sentences. Long paragraphs. 19th century economics…

Very excited about The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council forming a Learning and Leadership Committee to study issues of equity…

Before U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, was Betsy DeVos, she was Elisabeth Prince, older sister to Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, the private security (military) company…

As President Obama leaves office, it was a strange walk down memory lane to read Slavoj Zizek's "First As Tragedy, Then As Farce", a 160 page…

So, I like to cook a little bit and after seeing the film Forks over Knives at the behest of my DP and good friend, Chappale Burton, I've been on a vegan diet.

Thanksgiving Day and sickened and angry about the physical, cultural, economic violence being perpetrated by Energy Transfer Partners against the #StandingRock Sioux Tribe and…

In 2012, after the 2nd election of President Obama, I posted he had lost Hill District votes since 2008  and in reviewing Hill District voting data from the Allegheny County Elections Division…

I wrote this piece in response to a NYTimes article which examines a current Supreme Court case which argues Detroit Public Schools are unconstitutional…

Digging this view coming down Wylie Ave. Bomani Howze was the person I knew who really campaigned to connect…

Just met Chef Hassan Davis, owner of Affordable Elegance Catering/Cafe/Bakery who has opened up a pop up cafe…

Writing or thinking about some question on equity recently that involved the need to think about history, the “equality/equity” slide above flashed to my mind…

I was invited by Sue Kerr, author of Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents blog found at www.pghlesbian.org to present with her and archivist & librarian, Megan Massanelli at Pittsburgh Pod Camp…

Sunday morning, thinking of a master plan, and perusing the amazing body of work of Alternate ROOTS, the southern based, artist membership organization with a mission to…