Author: Professor Freeman
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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…
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When Black men Love White men
When you go shopping at the mall with your significant other and ya’ll are holding hands and having a good time, have you ever noticed all the eyes of other shoppers trained on you? Did you see the deep frowns, the double takes, side glances of disgust or the small groups of people pointing and…
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The word that stripped black bodies bare; clothes, skin, flesh, muscle and bone. The word that spat upon unmarked graves and spat upon brown corpses. The word echoing in a joyous uproar as swamp creatures fed on black babies. The word that chained black bodies to the ground. The word that traps black bodies behind…
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Here’s why I don’t plan on going to graduate school
For many graduating seniors the feeling of jubilance, excitement, great relief, pride and joy is accompanied by frivolity and celebration of completing a significant milestone in our lives. In addition to the relief and joy, one cannot escape a sense of confusion and also a sense of anxiety with the proverbial question mark looming in…
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When World’s Collide: White Supremacy and Intra-Cultural Violence (Part 2 of 3 )
Recently, I visited the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. The Freedom Center is a museum that is dedicated to providing education and exhibits that focuses on the African Diaspora, American slavery, modern slavery and human trafficking. The entire museum was incredible with exhibits and short programs that were thought provoking, educational and moving.…
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Black Feminism as my Voting Guide
“Our black women surrender their own equality and their own bodies to create our lives and are the starting point of each of our destinies. Maximizing each of our starting points as both women and men theoretically will maximize our end points with flourishing lives.”
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When World’s Collide: White Supremacy and Intra-Cultural Violence (Part 1 of 3)
Personally, I do not believe in coincidences. In a globalized world permeated with institutional and systematic injustice; I find it is quite unlikely that the influences that condition our individual decision making and mobility of choices and opportunity are not interrelated and interconnected. Our society is structured to that extent to propagate oppressive establishments within…
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When I realized I was Black
“Because of their micro-aggressions, their racist slights and prejudiced comments and because of the “obvious” divisionary line of privilege they were always so eager to draw between me and them.”
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#Black Lives Matter
This All Lives Matter campaign is nothing more than an attempt to coddle the straight cis-gender white majority and make it permissible to evade accountability and responsibility for lack of reform.
The Wayward Scholar 