Straight White Men for the Win? It's a No for Me, Dawg.
America is not just sickened with Covid-19 or measles. It's dying from Straight White Male Hovering Disorder (SWMHD). We so badly need a vaccine. Walk with me on this one or just walk away.
The great Curtis Clinton Smith had a gold-framed photo with a black felt background of John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy posed as if they were converging together in meetings to achieve world peace. This photo represents the byproduct of what would happen if poorly-executed artificial intelligence (AI) and Photoshop had a baby. But Curtis —or Granddaddy, as I affectionately called him when he was alive — was no different than most Black Americans who experienced the 1960s in her prime. For many Black families, these three men were the supposed kings of the Civil Rights Movement. They wanted racial equality for us all — or at least, that’s what history has fed us for over 60 years. Placing their faces in the dead cente…
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