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alexi mccammond is not canceled

By lcannon|2021-03-22T02:23:20-04:00March 22nd, 2021|Tags: #letlitatellit, #listentolita, AAPI, Alexi McCammond, Anna Wintour, anti-Asian, anti-Black, anti-Blackness, antiBlack, Asian, Axios, Black women, Black Women Black People, Black Women Matter, cancel culture, CBS, Christine Davitt, Condé Nast, controversy, corporate America, Cyndi Lauper, daytime TV, discrimination, Elaine Welteroth, emmy, Gina Rodriguez, hiatus, Holly Robinson Peete, Julie Chen, Karens, Leah Remini, Lexi McCammond, Paramount Plus, Protect Black Women, racism, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood, Stop Asian Hate, Teen Vogue, The People's Princess, The People's Princess Redux, The Talk, TJ Ducklo, Vogue, white supremacy, white women|

Why is it that canceling Black women--the perpetual saviors of the universe--leaves anyone who's not a Black woman salivating at the very thought? Well. . .until everyone who's not a [...]

the legacy of john lewis

By lcannon|2020-07-18T14:04:38-04:00July 18th, 2020|Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BLM, #CivilRightsMovement, #CivilRightsRedux, #GoodTrouble, #NeverForget, #RIP, American Heroes, Bloody Sunday, Freedom, Giants, Good Trouble, JohnLewis, Legacy, Remembering, Tributes|

I heard the news of Representative John Lewis's transition late last night less than 20 minutes after the story broke. I was shattered and went into meltdown mode, sobbing and [...]

naaga hates black women

By lcannon|2020-07-15T06:51:23-04:00July 15th, 2020|Tags: #ACAB, #AllLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackWomenMatter, #mecksheriff, #MGTOW, #ProtectBlackWomen, #Shoot2Win, #Shoot2WinCharlotte, 2A, 2nd Amendment, African American Gun Clubs, anti-Black, armed, Believe Black Women, Black gun clubs, Black men, Black NRA, Black women, bullying, castle doctrine, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department, CMPD, cops, expose, exposed, gundamentals, guns, harassment, justifiable homicide, law enforcement, MCSD, Mecklenburg County, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Department, Mecklenburg Sheriff, militia, misogynistic, misogynoir, misogyny, NAAGA, National African American Gun Association, National Rifle Association, NC, NFAC, North Carolina, NRA, patriarchy, Philip Smith, police, pro-Black, Rob Austin, Robin "Unc" Austin, S.W.A.T., S2W, Second Amendment, sexual assault, Shoot 2 Win, social justice, stand your ground, stand your ground law, SWAT, Tarheel State, Trust Black Women, Unc Austin|

I joined Shoot 2 Win (S2W) in May. It's a National African American Gun Association (NAAGA)-affiliated club, based out of Charlotte, North Carolina. I have experience with firearms and signed [...]

does jay-z need a lobotomy?

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00September 15th, 2019|Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #NFL, alt-right, Black hair, Donald Trump, double standards, dreadlocks, Hip-Hop, Hov, Jay-Z, jayz, Jigga, locs, microaggressions, modern slavery, National Football League, Roc Nation, sally hazelgrove, The Crushers Club, Twitter, virtue signaling, WHISIS, white ISIS, white privilege, white supremacy|

I have loved Jay-Z, and I have appreciated and applauded his growth over decades. I have all his CDs. I have paid to watch him perform live. I have stanned [...]

meet virginia

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00February 9th, 2019|Tags: bipartisan, blue states, chaos, Democrats, governor, Justin Fairfax, Kirk Cox, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, liberals, lieutenant governor, Mark Herring, political scandals, politics, purple states, racism, Ralph Northam, red states, Republicans, Richmond, sexism, sexual assault, Virginia, white supremacy|

This is a tale of two Virginias. Over the past 10 days, the state of Virginia has fallen from its eventual grace of solidifying coveted blue state status for all [...]

surviving misogynoir

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00January 6th, 2019|Tags: #BlackGirlsMatter, #BlackWomenMatter, #MeToo, #MuteRKelly, #ProtectBlackGirls, #ProtectBlackWomen, #Survivingrkelly, abusers, Andrea Kelly, Apple Music, Asante McGee, Azriel Clary, brainwashing, Bruce Kelly, CANCELED, Candice Norcott, Carey Kelly, Chicago, child rapist, cult, Demetrius Smith, devil, Dominique Gardner, Faith Rodgers, Herpes, human trafficking, indictments, Isolation, Jerhonda Pace, Jody Adewale, John Legend, Jovante Cunningham, Joycelyn Savage, Kenyette Tisha Barnes, kidnap, Kitti Jones, Learned Helplessness, Lisa Van Allen, Lizzette Martinez, Michelle Kramer, Oronike Odeleye, Pavlov’s Law, pedophiles, physical abuse, Piece Of Shit, psychological manipulation, PTSD, r. kelly, R&B, Robert Kelly, serial rapist, sex abuse, sex-trafficking, sexual assault, sexual predator, Sparkle, Spotify, STDs, Stockholm Syndrome, Tarana Burke, the pied piper, The Windy City, Time’s Up, Tom Joyner, trash, trauma, victim-blaming|

If you are a survivor who tuned into the Lifetime documentary, Surviving R. Kelly, peace be with you. I hope you took breaks, but more importantly engaged in the self-care [...]

america’s black kangs are upset with the most preeminent athlete of our time

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00April 21st, 2017|Tags: Alex Ohanian, Australian Open, Black kangs, Black women, fauxteps, fuckboys, Grand Slam, hoteps, misogynoir, Serena Williams, tennis, the GOAT|

Unless you've been scavenging the bottom of the garbage patch that is the Pacific Ocean, you know that Serena Williams recently announced that she's pregnant. By her F-I-A-N-C-E. Now a [...]

the elusivity of whites and privilege

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00March 20th, 2017|Tags: Akamai, Black Lives Matter, Diana Hall Whittaker, discrimination, I know the whites, Kalief Browder, lynch mob, lynching, melanin, mental health, racism, redlining, slavery, unapologetically Black, white privilege, white supremacy|

A few weeks ago, a clueless white chick--sadly, a former middle and high school classmate of mine--felt the need to apologize to me for her being born white and my [...]

when sounding “white” upsets the whites

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00January 31st, 2017|Tags: #BlackGirlMagic, AAVE, African-American Vernacular English, Akamai, antebellum, corporate America, emails, imperialism, King's English, microagressions, professionalism, white fragility, work|

One day, several years ago, a Black female colleague at a previous job told me that our white colleagues described my emails as "scathing". Pause. Below, the definition of scathing: [...]

the conundrum of bridget jones’s baby

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:07-04:00November 1st, 2016|Tags: baby daddy, Black bodies, Bridget Jones, Bridget Jones' Baby, Bridget Jones's Baby, Ciara, commecialization, Commodification, feminists, hypersexualization, instant gratification, Mark Darcy, Martavia Wynn, Mr. Darcy, oversexualization, patriarchy, Patrick Dempsey, polarization, Renee Zellweger, Russell Wilson, sex, slut-shaming, society, white privilege, Who the Daddy?|

The concept of the movie Bridget Jones's Baby, released September 16 of this year, is problematic for several reasons. Walk with me. If Bridget Jones' was Briana Jenkins, a quirky [...]

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