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#REPARATIONS Withdrawing from CUNY Hunter College One quiet March evening, as I wound down from a stressful week, collecting my self, I sat criss-crossed on the floor as Bob Marley played softly, yet powerfully in the atmosphere of my bedroom. Up to that moment, I was attending City University of New York, Hunter College receiving…
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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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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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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…
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