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Empire is Made Up of Humans and Only Humans

I know, the title is quite redundant as we all know that all empires have been created and ruined by humans. Every move to make or destroy an empire was made by a human, and if you think about some of the empires that were destroyed due to diseases, humans transmitted those diseases and unaware…

Representation in Education

When was the last time you saw or discussed a successful black person that was not within the business of entertainment. Let me guess, the last successful person may have been Kobe Bryant or maybe Kanye West or maybe Beyoncé, all entertainers. Yes all of the people people listed have grown to be more than…

Responsible. Despite Not Being Responsible.

We all have our hardships, to some it may come through money, yet to black person hardship starts with color and simply being black. I speak from the black perspective. Despite being West African, in the eyes of everyone else I am black, it is not to say that it is a bad thing, but…

“They Are Weak. We Are Not”

How many times in your lifetime have you been told by someone that they were better than you? Or in fact how many times has someone else saw that someone else was better than you? And their justification to the claim, was basically a misconstrued view of you created by the person who is seen…

A Native’s Land Will Always Be, A Native’s Land.

To have land is one thing, but to have complete control over it, is another. For centuries the human race has based one’s status by how many possessions owned. For the Inca, the amount of squares on traditional clothing symbolized how much power and land those of royalty had. Yet colonization soon changed one’s privilege…

A System Of Control

Imagine. One moment you’re with your family and friends in the town you’ve always lived in. You’re happy, everyone is calm and nothing seems out of the ordinary then suddenly, a large group of unknown people have arrived into your town, the leader of your town welcomes them with open arms, only to be ignored….

Have We All Been Destroyed?

European colonization ruined and caused social discrepancies. Throughout my blog posts I have always stated the existing Eurocentric world we live in. A world that is centered around Europe and the European interpretation. We’ve been taught history through only a European perspective, in which other histories such as African or Native American is obscured by that…

Make America Great Again?

“The blind woman sees everything”. The irony of this quote is what we are seeing in America today as our new president has been elected. In the novel “Waiting for the Barbarians” by J.C. Coetzee the antagonists, the colonists, are waiting the “barbarians” who they claim will soon attack their empire. While placing the title…

Black “Barbaric” Lives Matter?

BLM~Black Lives Matter Earlier this Monday I attended my humanities lecture. The professor for the day? Professor Lazo, one of my favorite professors within the Humanities Core Program because of his captivating insight on events happening today that connect with those that occurred many years ago. In this recent lecture professor Lazo mentioned the question, “What…