Independent researcher and writer. Interests: racial equity, social justice, cultural identity.
Born in the UK. I have lived in a number of countries: UK, US, Nigeria, and Barbados.
Old School Music Enthusiast.
| Google Scholar | https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=xgwIKUIAAAAJ&hl=en |
| Substack | https://towardsracialequity.substack.com/ |
Journalist Karen Attiah has been fired by the Washington Post for having the courage to do what mainstream journalists are not doing - in Attiah’s words, “using the pen to remember the forgotten, question power, shine light in darkness, and defend democracy.”
https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but
"Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room. 'Get him off the table,' the doctor recalled telling the surgical team..."
https://www.alternet.org/organ-donor-not/
#medicalethics #healthequity #organdonation #humanrights #BlackMastodon
This is a useful list illustrating just how extreme Kirk's views were regarding #racialequity and #socialjustice . HOWEVER, even articles like this one - that are critical of Kirk - seem to be holding back when it comes to describing him accurately, e.g., IMO, he wasn't just "right wing," he was a #farright extremist, and if he wasn't on the SPLC hatewatch list, he should have been.
🧵3/ “'One of the most worrying things for me about Trumpism is the way he has managed to transform what you thought were very rightwing but ultimately rational politicians into people who have become basically Trumpists.'"
- David Smith (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/donald-trump-hitler-similarities
🧵2/ "Hitler and Trump were and are political performance artists who speak only vaguely about policies – Make Germany/America great again – but know how to draw attention using jokes, insults and extreme language ... 'their extremist statements are very deliberately meant to provoke a reaction and to get them into the press' ... Along with its headline-grabbing potential, the extremist language also plays well with many voters."
- David Smith (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/donald-trump-hitler-similarities
🧵1/ "When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a 'unified reich' if he wins the US presidential election, and took nearly a full day to remove it, the most shocking thing was how unshocking it was."
- David Smith (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/donald-trump-hitler-similarities
The buzzword, “woke racism” is an affront to those who have lost their lives as a result of racial injustice or sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of racial justice.
https://towardsracialequity.substack.com/p/john-mcwhorters-woke-racism
There was a window of opportunity to move this case forward in 2023 but unfortunately the then government chose to ignore it.
#civilrights #humanrights #socialjustice #racism #hatecrime #BlackMastodon
"Therapy for Black people needs to address not just the problems of the Black individual but also the pathology in society that must be navigated by that individual."
https://towardsracialequity.substack.com/p/black-psychotherapy-observations
“He was once described as the man who put the beat into the Beatles but when the musician, Harold ‘Lord Woodbine’ Phillips, was invited to see a play about the Fab Four ... he saw that he had been airbrushed out of a backdrop photo with the band.”
- Angela Cobbinah of Camden New Journal
https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/the-beatle-airbrushed-from-rock-music-history
