My Black Future Dream
I speak from a place of hope today. Let’s imagine what our Black futures could look like. Will it be a place of struggle, innovation, healing, or complacency? Today we hold our collective futures in our hands and there are several paths before us. I know what our past looks like. I see images of…
A Snapshot of Chaos
You decide to start writing your 20 page seminar paper due in two days, it is 7 PM Every time you try to write the paper you work for exactly 5 minutes before deciding you obviously need a break for your hard work So you try to binge watch a show on netflix Only to…
A Tale of Two Nights
One night I stayed up. I watched the trees blow through my window and listened. I heard planes above my head and the wind whistling through leaves. I listened to the creak of my apartment and gentle snores from my girlfriend next door in our room. I leaned back on my couch as my eyes…
Dreams of My Ancestors
My ancestors did not bleed, sweat, labor, and dream to see me exploited in 2019. I did not suffer and climb my way out of the underbelly of Leavenworth Kansas, a police state ran by descendants of the KKK enacting laws of their ancestors, to feel unworthy. I did not suffer through impostor syndrome at…
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