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Happy New Year, friends, non-friends and white people who will find any and every reason to be offended by the same group of people they steal everything from.
I’m sure everyone is well on their way to breaking the promises they made to themselves on Sunday evening; I know I am. As I type this, I’m sitting here eating a fast food hash brown and a fast food breakfast sandwich, and I definitely bought coffee this morning instead of making it at home.
This is why I don’t do resolutions; they are so easy to break within the first few hours of the new year. Waking up “late” this morning led to me taking all these shortcuts and that’s definitely an excuse and not an explanation, but I do endeavor to do better for the next 365 days. We got blessed with an extra day in 2024, so let’s consider today, Jan. 2, as a “new year’s do-over.”
You can start your resolutions now.
Speaking of resolutions …
As 2023 was coming to a close, I spent a lot of time thinking about the things that need to change in the new year.
Some of those things were personal for me, like exercising more, eating better, setting a more consistent sleep/work schedule (this writer’s life comes with crazy hours) and cooking at home more instead of doing GrubHub every night.
Other things I thought about, however, are things that happen on a daily basis in the lives of Black people, things that (some) white people do that are aggravating to no end.
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I came up with a list, and I’m going to share it here in hopes that the white people to whom these things apply will take notice, take stock, exhibit some personal accountability (as opposed to the endless amounts of hubris, entitlement, and white privilege) and make positive changes that will have a direct and positive…
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