We Remember!
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 11th, 2026
We are often taught to think of the ancestors as people who are behind us, sealed off in time, belonging to a finished world. Yet this is a shallow way of understanding continuity. To say that we are our ancestors is not merely symbolic or sentimental. It is to recognize that the past survives in […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 6th, 2026
Black American English is a graveyard dialect that has undergone decreolization and there’s a pseudo standardization that has taken place. In my studies, what I primarily do is forensically analyze the skeleton of a theory. I take it apart and examine it comparatively. There is a tendency in Black culture for everything to be automatically […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 3rd, 2026
A comparison between public care, civic discipline, and the cultural meaning of indifference in Black America and Japan. When I was in Japan, one of the first things that struck me was how clean everything felt. The streets, the public areas, and the general environment all carried a sense of freshness and order. What stood […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 2nd, 2026
Everybody likes to play this game where if you’re not “on game” (in the know) then you’re not observant or just don’t know (hence the Iykyk) There’s a code of secrecy in BA that works solely by observation. However this has led to a gatekeeping problem in the community. In some cases that need becomes […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 2nd, 2026
One of the more painful features of Black American life is not simply hardship itself, but the strange relationship many have developed to hardship. When pressure becomes constant, instability becomes familiar, and disappointment becomes repetitive, people do not always respond through direct confrontation. Very often, they respond through avoidance. Reality is still there, but it […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 2nd, 2026
A lot of people move through life like they are the main event and everyone else is background. Narcissism is an appropriate word or maybe egotistical. What changed is not just ego. It is the structure. Social media turned ordinary life into a stage, attention into currency, and visibility into status. People do not just […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 2nd, 2026
We’ve all seen the process unfold before us. Black Americans do X. Some random group in Africa now does something that looks like X, was directly emulated from BAs, or did something similar in one of the many cultures. Therefore X is shared and originally came from Africa. Anachronism is the chronological misplacing of people, events, […]
Posted in For the Nation and For the Culture on Apr 1st, 2026
At what point do we stop and recognize this act of stripping Black American’s culture as fraud and identity laundering? When people take Black American creations, reduce them to vague “African roots,” and then speak as if the finished form was never distinctly Black American in the first place is pure erasure. It is a […]
