He became madly obsessed with that nonsense. — It started as a joke and soon got out of control. One day my boss told me that I was lucky to be a Black woman. “You’re Black, and you’re a woman — you’re hot stuff, you can take any job from a white man any day. You have an…

Who stands to benefit the most from their demise? — God forbid, I don’t ever want this to happen, but when I heard that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle almost had a near-fatal car crash in NYC two weeks ago, I panicked a little. I kept on reading about their horrible ordeal, that they had been brutally chased by paparazzi…

And no, that isn’t fiction, it’s reality — The ink had barely dried on my last story about a conversation I overheard between two teenage white boys who wanted to own Black slaves when a close friend of mine sent me an article entitled: Google removes Slavery Simulator game amid outrage in Brazil. The game allowed players to…

And the emergence of the “proud racist” — I was on a bus the other day when I overheard a conversation between two white teenagers. They must have been around my daughter’s age — 17 years old. “You know what, I’d like to buy myself two Black slaves, a man, and a woman. They’ll clean my house, make…

By exercising basic common sense — I don’t usually like watching the news when I wake up. But today, I was a little curious about what was going on in the world when I saw the #boycottCNN hashtag on Twitter. …

So why do we react so differently? — I’ll start this by saying that I’ve been patient. I have patiently awaited the “Save Sudan” logos on my social media. I have patiently awaited the pleas from various Western charities and non-governmental organizations, to help innocent civilians that are stuck in the horrendous civil war unfolding in Sudan, a…

Because you can’t keep those skeletons in the closet forever — When I started writing about racism in 2020, a white colleague of mine reached out to me for a confidential discussion. I was a little worried at first because I had heard that some people didn’t think I should share my opinion on social justice issues on LinkedIn. …

I’ll always have your backs — I joined Medium in November 2019, just before the start of the Covid 19 pandemic. I’ll never forget the article, that one article that convinced me to become a monthly subscriber. It was published in January 2020. It was an article that spoke about When Black Women Move From Office…

Are antiracists like me doing all this work for nothing? — Every once in a while, I hesitate before I publish an article about racism. Why? …