HeyJaredLetters from the Stoic Era
Essays on power, labor, and survival for Black women—and those who love them—in late-stage America.
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The Names They Call Ghetto (opens the original)
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I posted a shorter version of this as a note and it traveled further than I expected. A lot of you asked me to finish it. So here is the finished thing, including the West African and Native parts I said I’d come back to.Some of the “ghetto” names Black people get ridiculed for are actually just proof of how unread the person doing the ridiculing is.Start with TupacI remember guys like Rush Limbaugh making fun of Tupac’s name. Saying his mother, Afeni Shakur, must have named him after smoking tw
“Please, Please Help Us” (opens the original)
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The Boom in Black Women-Owned Businesses Is Real. The Story We’re Telling About It Isn’t. (opens the original)
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