Gay white men have a tendency to latch onto their homosexuality when they are asked to be held accountable for their whiteness.
I remember my first crush in elementary school was on a white boy. There was something so alluring and charming about him and white boys in general. The idea of dating any other race didn’t even cross my mind. Middle and high school would see me having crushes on just white boys. By the time I got to college and started to use dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, my preferences were pretty set on white men. It’s not that I didn’t find other races to be attractive, I just always wanted to be with a white man.
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The former President brought up how reparations seem necessary to level the playing field for African-Americans but that he sees why Whites wouldn’t be on board.
Former President Obama spoke about race relations in America with Bruce Springsteen in their new Spotify-exclusive podcast Renegades: Born in the USA. At one point, the pair touched on reparations, where Obama justified the need for them now. He said, “the wealth of this country, the power of this country … not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it … but a large portion of it, was built on the backs of slaves.” This is a huge departure from where Obama stood while President.
Back in 2016, in an Atlantic interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama explained that it was…
Joe Manchin has a problem with Neera Tanden, but overlooked issues with Sessions, Kavanaugh, and Barr.
Joe Manchin has become a thorn in the side of Democrats ever since the party took over all three branches of government. Since the Presidential election, news organizations have continued to write articles about the power of the centrist Democrat. For example, a recent article by the AP started off with, “A moderate Democratic senator from West Virginia is suddenly one of the most powerful people in Washington.” A quick Google News search of ‘Joe Manchin powerful’ comes back with thousands of articles with headlines like, “Joe Manchin Is The Senator Most Critical to Joe Biden’s Policy Goals,” “Meet Joe…
A very small share of student loan borrowers attends elite colleges.
On Tuesday night, CNN hosted a town hall with Joe Biden where he was pressed on the issue of student loan forgiveness. Jocelyn Fish, a marketing director for a community theater, asked,
We need at least a $50,000 minimum. What will you do to make it happen?
The President responded with a short reply, “I will not make it happen.”
Biden went on to further explain that students who went to elite colleges like Penn, Harvard, and Yale were undeserving of student loan forgiveness. The exchange was jarring for progressives and advocates of student loan forgiveness who found it alarming…
In a society that teaches Black people they aren’t loved, those insecurities often spill over into relationships.
Let me put it simply, I love Black people. And I have exclusively dated Black men since my early 20’s. As I got to dating more Black men, I started to see just how hard it was to love them. This isn’t isolated to the Black gay community. In fact, Black love has faced unique challenges from the time of slavery.
It all starts with Black women not being loved by Black men. As these women choose to remain single to avoid the hassle that comes with dating Black men, the gay Black boys that they raise grow up having…
Olivia Wilde’s recent Instagram post praising Harry Styles for treating women as his equals shouldn’t be praised, it should be the standard.
Yesterday, Olivia Wilde created an Instagram post about her upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling in which she praised Harry Styles for playing a supporting role in her female-led film. In it, she wrote,
Little known fact: most male actors don’t want to play supporting roles in female-led films. The industry has praised them to believe it lessens their power (i.e. financial value) to accept these roles, which is one of the reasons it’s so hard to get financing for movies focusing on female stories. No joke, it is harrrrrd to find actors who recognize why it might be worth it…
Going to a predominantly white institution let me know how high the bar is set for Black people.
When I was a high schooler, my dream schools had been Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). The allure of going to a school with name recognition far outweighed my concerns over anything else at these schools. The beautiful campuses, school spirit, and wow factor that came from mentioning these two colleges as my top choices made me believe that I was making the right decision regardless of which one I picked. By January 2012, I put in my security deposit for Pitt.
When I first toured Pitt, all I could notice were the students going from class…
Dexcom makes a life-saving device that people with type 1 diabetes use, but the device still remains out of reach for many.
Like many other people with type 1 diabetes, I watched the Nick Jonas Dexcom Super Bowl Ad with excitement and glee. I pointed to the device that lies behind my arm feeling proud to see myself being acknowledged on one of the largest stages.
A few years ago, the standard of care for managing blood sugar levels was through finger-pricking. It involved pricking your finger with a small needle, putting blood into a small strip that was then interpreted by a glucometer. This had to be done several times a day to determine where blood sugar levels were at…
Masculinity has nothing to do with strength and everything to do with power
Six days ago, BBC reported on China’s efforts to promote an education drive on making boys more manly. China’s education ministry has suggested that young Chinese men have become too “feminine” in recent years. In an effort to combat that, the minister sent out a notice outlining how the government was going to hire more physical education teachers to teach boys about sports like football to cultivate boys’ masculinity. Candace Owens, a far-right Republican influencer, decided to voice her opinion on that matter two days ago when she went to her Twitter.
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