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I Kneel to Stand
Kneel to Stand Right and wrong. Love and hate. Respect and intolerance. Make a choice. Speak despite fear. Take a stand. I stand with Nike. I stand with Kap. Black Lives Matter.
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Black and Blue
My blog post today is literally about one thing and one thing only. There’s nothing else besides this I want to address and I want it to be very clear that there is only one point I’m wanting to make. I’ve seen a number of good people post things since our latest wave of police violence against people of color that – in a nutshell – says that when you run away from the police, you should be prepared to die. Because if you don’t comply with law enforcement, you deserve whatever happens to you. Here is the one thing I would like to say to that.…
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United We Stand, Divided We Fall
How can you see this and not be sick? How can you watch the video and not weep openly with grief? How can you hear the stories and continue to deny the reality? #AntonSterling #PhilandoCastile #FalconHeightsShooting How can you sit on your couch, watch your tv, play with your kids, eat your microwave dinner, stare at your phone, do your squats, pick your Snapchat filter…and continue to pretend that our country isn’t in crisis? How can you be silent? Does your life need to be in danger for you to feel the fear and outrage of others? Can you not find…
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Tough Love
*trigger warning: old Cleveland baseball team mascot shown* I’m feeling really sick today but I wanted to try something that I call Tough Love week, where each day I broach a topic that affects me personally that I may have been avoiding a little bit, as to not piss off people close to me (or in my vicinity). Or at least that’s the idea. But, hell, it’s Tuesday so technically I’ve already missed the first day of Tough Love Week so who knows where I’ll end up with this thing! This wasn’t the topic I was going to start off Tough Love Week with but it seems the best…
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An Open Letter to America from an American
Dear The American People, It’s with much sadness that I write you this letter but I see no way around it. I agree that we’ve got an incredibly diverse country made up of multiple ethnicities, genders, creeds, sexual persuasions and onward but we seem to be having some troubles creating a home for such vastly different people. The way I see it, however, there really isn’t so much about who we are as people that divides us and keeps us apart from one another and because of this, I’d like to put forth a new way of looking at the people who make up our forever evolving country. The…
