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Native Americans are killed more per capita by police than any other ethnic group in the United States. This is a fact. However, as Blacks and Native Americans have mixed heavily for hundreds of years (to the point where many of both groups have ancestry from the other, including myself), it behooves me to say…

Six years ago, I wrote a piece called “Let Them Riot In The Sea Of Injustice,” on the riots in Ferguson over the murder of Michael Brown. In that piece I lamented the fact that black life meant nothing, that: “As a people we must no longer accept the racist biased opinion formulated by the…

Today, a friend of mine was accountable and vulnerable on Facebook. She opened a post discussing her move to understanding that #AllLivesMatter and colorblindness did not, in fact, serve her friends—especially those who are Black—the way she intended. This friend is one of the people who I feel has the best energy in the world,…