I did not watch the Grammys. I YouTube’d some conservative, Christian and religious critiques of it. I saw the usual Black liberal sectors praising its inclusivity and celebration of all lives and lifestyles. Needless to say I am shocked by the messaging, quite deliberate messaging and it is not because I am a prude. Let’s talk about the optics on celebrating something ‘unholy’, as a culture. When their movement got the world stage, in the fullness of ‘pop culture acceptance’; after years of trying to get the churches to accept it (LGBTQIA matrimony and family)as ‘holy’, after years of trying…

The thing about the Haitian migrant ‘crisis’ is that of course White America (and not just White) thinks it’s a great crime and imposition on America that Haitians wash up on our shores and borders in rugged desperation. Indeed, the nerve. They even view it in a ‘Trumpian’ kind of ‘racism lite’ way; which is to say brownish or Black people from shit hole countries are a criminal, financial and disease ridden imposition on the good White taxpaying citizens of America that White folks don’t deserve. This is as if Haitian niggers washing up on the shores of America is…

A few years ago in a critique of American post-modernity I argued that the sense of having or holding a professional trade for self-actualization reasons and purposes is gone and people would just as soon quit teaching, firefighting, policing and even doctoring if they could make enough money flipping houses or in some other get rich quick scheme you see on late night television infomercials. In America we assume about each other with straight faces that if I won the lotto, I’d not only quit my current job but damn near quit my current life and live the stereotypical life…