Author: Professor Freeman
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Being Patient Misleads Us Into Being Passive
“Circumstances will provide that many doors will remain shut. But this doesn’t suggest we cannot thrive in those doors that remain open nor does it suggest we cannot [still] reach for the stars or create alternative pathways. “
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Living on the Precipice of Violence and Death
“This is the nature of a social death, we cannot interact in peace because we are not valued as equal, we are not valued as human, and every social interaction is buried and eulogized before it begins.”
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Stop Inviting White People to the Cookout
We must stop voluntarily positioning Blackness for consumption and exploitation…..please stop inviting white people to the cookout. White(s) covet being granted exclusive membership to our Black spaces, not to share in a banquet of soul food and company but instead to colonize and appropriate our bodies. Black experience and Black people are the featured entree…
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Can we as Black men, Do more for Black men?
It is too rare to find fraternalism that isn’t rooted in hegemonic masculinity and/or brutal violence.
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Could Mindfulness Cure the Spread of Fake News?
It matters that I present reflections, ideas or radical thought as news because anything misused and misnamed becomes misinformation.
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Wakanda Cannot Save Us
Our imaginations and creativity are by far some of the most powerful weapons at our disposal for shaping the future. As technology has increasingly become a daily factor in our lives and with access to the thoughts of anyone across the globe with the click of a button, it can be easy for our conceptions…
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Pro-Black Can Mean Anti-White and that’s O.K
…whiteness is a direct foil to blackness and makes Pro-Blackness effectively fixed against all systems and institutions that are intrinsically anti-black.
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So, I’m Turning Twenty-Four…
So, today is the day. I must confess that I’ve been dreading my birthday for some time now. I have been trying to hide from father time since I turned 23 one orbit ago, but ultimately he found me. Those closest to me are aware that I’ve been freaking out continuously about my birthday. Most…
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The REALLY Messy Truth
“We need to be real, raw and genuine. I believe from true authenticity and accepting truth, that we can learn to create a system of democracy not based on choosing sides or choosing who is more or less deserving.”
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Stranger Things: Hopper and the Real Trouble with American Policing
[WARNING: ‘Spoiler Alert’ there may be some spoiler’s mentioned throughout this article] Netflix has launched the new hit series, Stranger Things, jam-packed with nostalgic imagery and rhetoric while filled with mystery that is reminiscent of a child-like wonder in science, curiosity and fantastical monsters. Enabling the show to move to the top ranks on…
