The Contempt In Us

Search any human heart and you will find contempt. It comes in many forms and is unfortunately as natural to us as breathing and eating. It organizes us. Somewhere along the way (probably in adolescence), we start identifying everything we hate – everything we think we are not and everything we do not want to be. This is probably a necessary process of forming our identity; the problem is too often we get stuck there and believe that is the only way to “be somebody.” Long into our adulthood, ...  Keep reading

That Is Free

Imagine a world where all people of color are in charge

We will rejoice

Not because one is better than the other

But because we live in a world where the tables can turn and everyone is okay

Where everyone gets a chance to play and sometimes those who have played the longest let someone else have their day

Only poetry will save us

Not logic or politic or rhetoric

But beauty, art and music

Because poetry helps you understand

Things you were not meant to understand

And when people of color take ...  Keep reading