Yes, they do in all the ways I once thought they didn’t. — Around the 5th year into my interracial relationship with a white woman, I became aware that she didn’t realise that she was with a black woman. I was having one of my nostalgic for mid-2000’s music and I felt like listening to that weird but fun era of viral music…

The world’s most famous doll film is more than just another film. Barbie is a political satire, a product placement film that simultaneously praises and criticizes its product, a mother-daughter relationship, an investigation of gender and its presentation, and a road trip film about the quest for identity and purpose…

And some solutions about how to manage some of the challenges that you will most likely face. — One of the first interracial relationships portrayed on screen was Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. In this 1960’s film, Sidney Poitier, a widowed black doctor, accompanies his white girlfriend to her parent’s house for dinner. The parents do not know that he is black until he gets there. …

Here are some things that truly confident people never do. — Confidence is a captivating quality that attracts people and leaves a lasting impression. However, true confidence is not just a facade of self-assurance; it goes much deeper than that. Truly confident people possess a unique set of traits that set them apart from the rest. …

But don’t make me love it any less. — 1. The level of delusion Before visiting the US, I always imagined those lines that you keep seeing in movies about how America is the greatest country in the world were nothing more than that: lines in movies. I was so wrong. When I went there I was shocked to see that Americans have been…

Our toxic relationships with wealth. — I love history. In 1910, the U.S. federal government passed the White Slave Traffic Act. They did it in response to the rise of prostitution. Basically, women were selling their bodies in order to escape poverty and abuse. The government did almost nothing to address the actual circumstances leading to…

The online Clinton cult and, more recently, its KHive variant hold as articles of faith various talking-points programmed into them by Hillary Clinton, her underlings and her big-platform supporters. This writer has dubbed them “the Clinton Cult Rules,” and these, a substitute for independent research or judgment, are endlessly parroted…

Capitalism is in runaway mode and must be curtailed. Perhaps ‘quiet quitting’ doesn’t go far enough — Here is the title to an article I recently saw on Yahoo. “Ford targets quiet quitters with new policy that could see underachievers lose their severance.” Companies are in a complete froth about a media-hyped attitude towards work called “quiet quitting.” Quiet quitters say they are going to work the…

You stand in your kitchen, turn on the sink’s tap, and nothing happens. You have no water in your home despite the fact that you live on the banks of the Colorado River, one of the most valuable natural entities in the U.S. It’s not that there’s no water to…

An open letter from the British People. Dear Jeremy, You were right about everything. You were right about the plans by Tories to destroy the NHS, using austerity by way of underinvestment and by privatizing vast swathes of the frontline services. You understood the need to put the most vulnerable…

Read on.. The BBC is the national broadcaster. And it has been at the forefront of all kinds of attacks by the right wing establishment. According to them, the BBC is seen as a leftist organization filled with too many people who had marxist sympathies during their time at university. …

His Words They Never Bring Up — There is the Martin that America claims as one of its greatest heroes, and the Martin that was for America to revere MLK as it now does. It had to forget what they thought about him while he lived and dilute and distill his message to reflect what is convenient. …