Check Your Privilege

03/06/2021

The Amber Ruffin Show. New videos every week. https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/the-amber-ruffin-show?cid=2101originalstarsownyt795&utm_campaign=2101origin...

20/07/2020

I haven't been listening to enough music these days. And I wonder why my stomach's in a knot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2gJau5fwk

Magic from Mr Mayfield.

02/07/2020

No doubt, Irish were treated abysmally at important times in American history, but the status of indentured servitude is not an apples-to-apples comparison to slavery. USA Today explains:

Social media claims that the Irish people were enslaved in the colonial Americas and treated as brutally as or worse than African slaves are false.

24/06/2020

So proud to read this! NE Ohio has not let me down: https://www.ideastream.org/news/black-lives-matter-protests-extend-into-ohios-predominately-white-suburbs
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Medina, Ohio - I SEE you.
The lady that was interviewed said [re: a mostly white BLM march], “it made me feel like a part of the community.”

Demonstrations took place in a number of predominately-white suburbs.

09/06/2020

A movie about a black woman who made history and a man who was white when she did. » Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateNightSeth » Get more Late Nig...

06/06/2020

Hard conversation, offered humbly

University Chancellor, Susan E. Borrego, reflects on her life as an emancipated minor and dissects the emotionally charged conversation surrounding race rela...

03/06/2020

According to Google Translate, “I am inconvenienced” shows up as meaning “I am complicit,” so I tried, “‘All’ Lives Matter” and got “I am complicit.”
Then because Google Assistant heard me while I was asking out loud to no one, “why can’t they just go home?” I got, “because you are still complicit.”

02/06/2020

Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories...

02/06/2020