Full stop. Wearing bronzer and foundation 7+ more shades darker than your natural skin tone, exaggerating and bastardizing certain physical features, dress, music, vernacular in a Sambo-like fashion, whether it’s for Halloween, your yearbook page, for an office party, or a “fun” prank—is Intolerable. Full stop. I, too, am including you if you are a…
Month: February 2019
[Americans must] seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history. President Gerald R. Ford (1976) Since 1976, the month of February has been designated as Black History Month, a time in which the U.S. (and now the U.K, Canada and the Netherlands) annually…