black folks

I caught this recent article in the Washington Post via Jack and Jill Politics and Prometheus 6, and it's so wonderful. Using historical context and excellent analysis of social phenomena, Khalil Muhammad outlines the movement to transform larger social ills that affect all Americans into a cryptic pathology that targets poor black Americans for their incapabilities to Get Over Racism And Do Something Productive In Society (GORADSPIS). The main way this pathology continues for African-Americans and many other communities of color is maintaining the invisibility of whiteness and tacitly accepting "white values" as the gold standard of living well in