Sublime

out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.

In 1964, eight years before I was born, my family moved from Titusville to Ensley. Ours was the third Black family on the block. And the last White man on our block, which changed from White to Black across a few years, diligently kept up a sign that read “Zoned for whites.” Each morning on the way to school, the neighborhood boys kicked it down. E

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

What a powerful construction race is—powerful enough to consume us. And it comes for us early.

And this is where each of us bears a responsibility that grows more important every day. Just as we have a responsibility to safeguard our environment, our neighborhoods, and our communities, we have a responsibility to safeguard truth and history so they will be shared resources for generations to come, and not the purview of a small subset of spe

It was the lazy Blacks who made your neighborhoods unsafe and threatened your lineage’s purity and survival due to interracial relationships. These narratives converged in a cacophony of social media and mainstream media outlets on a constant loop. The tools of the wealthy class were deployed in full force to shape thinking and mobilize fear into a

every fifty years, we are reminded that no one stays a slave forever. Freedom comes to everyone, whether they want it or not.

for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.