Nearly a year after my last MP3 Mix playlist/mix CD/stubborn attempt at maintaining normalcy in chaos, I decided that this collection of 22 songs, totaling 79 minutes, would be pushed crying and screaming into the world. … Read More MP3 Mix 17 – They’re Only 17! (Not in THAT Way!)
Season 11 of “Married At First Sight” includes a couple where the (Black) man, Miles, is admittedly easy with expressing his emotions, and the woman (Karen — uh-oh!) of the couple is uncomfortable with being with a man who is at ease with expressing himself — which she learned through his Instagram videos. Perhaps his… Read More A Brief Rant About Black Masculinity And Reality Dating TV
I overheard two people at work talking about how easy it would be to commit murder in San Francisco and how crime here is bad. Considering that I work with white-collar folk, they probably believe that people who don’t look like them are bad!… Read More This Damn City.
Four months ago, I wrote to Car and Driver magazine regarding the overwhelming negative letters printed in the December 2021 “Backfires” section regarding their September 2021 issue that featured articles about systemic racism in policing and a Black military veteran who went on to manage factory auto workers. As a lifelong car fan and a… Read More UPDATE: RE: A Reminder That Car Culture Is White
propagate and distill their views of car culture in a communion with enthusiasts and fanatics — with the positively seen portion being and catering to white men — including websites, manufacturer-sponsored events, and fan-based social gatherings. Never mind that more women buy cars than men or that there is a sizable portion of the public who are not white men on the downslope of their quarter-life crisis. … Read More A Reminder That Car Culture Is White
Summer 2020 was supposed to be a turning point in race relations in the U.S. In the wake of the George Floyd murder and subsequent protests, a groundswell of attention garnered on a horrific, violent act by a police officer (and signed off by his coworkers and a broken police system) largely because of the COVID pandemic put white people on the defensive — for the first time in awhile. “Good” non-black people discussed and reflected on their role in the subhuman treatment of Black people — vowing to do better. “Good” corporations saw you, heard you, and vowed to do better with their hiring, donations, and time. … Read More Whiteness Is A Hell Of A Drug
Diary of a Genial Black Man 