Hello! Welcome to COTL, a discussion place for BIPOC. Posted the first 3 Wednesdays of the month
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Hope everyone is doing okay. Things have been up and down for me for a variety of reasons, but how’s everyone else doing?
I think many are aware that White Supremacy appears to be rearing it’s ugly head in multiple insidious ways. From the whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s awful rhetoric (& arrest of a student at Texas Tech & firing of a WP Columnist Karen Attiah for simply reposting Charlie Kirk posts) to the anti-migrant protestors (white nationalists) marching in the capital on Saturday.
To which I was very, very close by sheer coincidence & just lucked out by missing the main bulk of it:
The WPT is Cute and Invasive
The WPT is Cute and Invasive
Things are looking grim & not getting better with completely ineffectual leadership & the lack of challenging of issues behind such a rise.
Stay safe y’all & keep fighting the good fight 🙏🏽.
Thought I’d also pay some respect to educator & Morgan State University president & civil rights activist Earl Richardson:
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/nx-s1-5540689/earl-richardson-obit