Category: Just My Thoughts
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How 90s Kids Were Trained to Think Differently
Growing up in the 90s meant learning through failure, patience, creativity, and independence. From Nintendo challenges to navigating the great outdoors, our brains were constantly being trained to think critically. Today, convenience, overprotective parenting, and instant gratification raise an uncomfortable question: Are we making life easier for children while making it harder for them to…
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Precedent. Set. Checkmate.
When compassion depends on who is sitting at the defense table, it stops being compassion and becomes preference. Mental illness deserves understanding; but if it changes accountability, America better be prepared to apply that same standard equally.
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Real Friends Don’t Hold You Back From Your Growth
Real friendship isn’t measured by how long someone has known you, but by whether they support the person you’re working to become. People who genuinely love you don’t need you stuck to keep them comfortable.
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The Berlin Wall of Growth
Growth requires the courage to question what we believe, what we buy, and who benefits from keeping us distracted. Sometimes the strongest wall standing between us and a better life is the one we keep defending.
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Who Are You Without the Costume?
How much of who we fiercely defend is actually who we are? Sometimes growth means questioning the identities we inherited, created, performed; and eventually outgrew.
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A Proud Racist Should Identify on Their Driver’s License
What happens when racial superiority meets a failing heart, kidney, or liver? Hatred becomes complicated when survival depends on the very people you’ve spent your life believing are beneath you.
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The Badge of Shallow
America demands accountability from the powerless while repeatedly rewarding failure at the top. Maybe it’s time we stop grading leadership by prestigious degrees, wealth, titles and political theater; and start grading it by something revolutionary: results.
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Why It’s Insulting to Tell the Black Community to “Just Move On”
Black Americans are often told to “move on,” but the reality is that history never stopped shaping the present. From destroyed communities and underfunded institutions to ongoing disparities, the past isn’t past: it’ still structurally present. Moving forward requires acknowledging what actually happened, not pretending the starting line was ever equal.
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He Died Hungry, But Everybody Ate at the Funeral
We somehow find flowers, food, beautiful words, and overflowing love once someone is gone. But where was the humanity when they were hungry, hurting, and still here to receive it? Maybe we’ve become better at mourning people than loving them while they’re alive.
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Are Strong Black Men Allowed to Cry?
Society often tells men to be vulnerable. But does that invitation truly extend to strong Black men? This article explores the emotional cost of strength, the burden of double standards, and why humanity should never have to be earned before compassion is given.
