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RACIAL FATIGUE: How Systemic Racism Wears on the Soul, Disrupts the Healing of the Black Family, and Removes Black People from Their True Status and Fair Standing in the United States.
That’s it. Enough said. Just Kidding. I have a lot to say on this. As a Black woman, seeking mental and physical health care is difficult and taxing, as I have found most care providers pass a Brown paper bag test (if you don’t know what that is, you have reading to do). It is…
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Black and Bougie: Why Being Black is Not Synonymous with Being Poor and Uneducated
Within the hierarchical, American class system, Blackness is often synonymized and associated with being “lower class”. That is, being poor, having limited resources, and having little formal education. The subconscious associations are ever-present throughout American society. American marketing and advertising, one of the mainstream methods of communicating with and reproducing the current class hierarchy is…
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Get Me Outta Here
I cannot shake this feeling that the world and I are at odds. Everything about it feels like the opposite of how God intended for us to live. Some things just feel out of sync. Take an average, American work day: Waking up, usually in a rush, sitting in traffic, staring into a screen, returning…
Earnest Supplication 