Jesus didn’t advertise, didn’t buy billboards in the next town. He didn’t advertise ‘it’ because he was ‘it’, when you are ‘it’ you don’t have to advertise, presumably. Come on brothers, when you go out to the basketball court, you can tell whether or not somebody got game by how they dribble, not what comes out of their mouths. Fellow tennis players, when you see a ninja serve you pretty much know what you’re going to be getting. It’s an old anecdote because it’s been true a long time, ‘if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

I was fascinated by the fact that post-modern whites act very surprised when we tell them how distrustful we are of public institutions and public health with the most glaring example being our reluctance to get vaccinated and distrust of the police. Smart Negro professionals, talking heads, Black pundits, Black academics and public intellectuals told them the history of the Tuskegee Experiment, the history of the Henrietta Lacks research, forced sterilization and the way the white south used the criminal justice system in the Jim Crow/Black Codes eras et al. There are many examples but I notice white folks eyes…