Kermit O
WRITER • EDUCATOR • DREAMER — Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up. Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds.

Free Speech, Cancel Culture, and the Miseducation of Cousin Miles

July 14, 2020 • Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Society and Culture


Those who benefit from the status quo (and those who aspire to) — by virtue of social, economic, or political power and privilege — would really quite like it, if the rest of you wouldn’t much mind, if we could just keep things “civil”. A premium is placed on preserving the appearance, not just of civility, but of the fundamental “goodness” of those in power.

cancel culture, Cousin Miles, free speech, Thomas Chatteron Williams

Who Should Have a Seat at the Education Policy Table?

August 10, 2019 • Education, Politics

That whole time, there were other voices, on the margins of academia and the political sphere – pushed there by the relentless power of the status quo and those who uphold it – who were already making the case Nick and Diane only just came to understand. There were teachers who understood it, even if they didn’t have the vocabulary or the platform to make the case, or of they did, were quickly buried by the neoliberal demands of the system and punished for noncompliance.

Civic Ventures, Dr. Bettina Love, Education Justice, Pitchfork Economics

The Sacrifice of Ralph Northam on the Altar of Democratic Sanctimony

February 10, 2019 • Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Society and Culture

This whole Virginia drama is revealing something important about the current Democratic establishment, something which has implications for both past and future, including the election of Donald Trump. That something is that Democrats are symbolic politicians, concerned more with the image of doing the right thing, than actually doing it. Where they effect policies that actually make a positive difference in people’s lives, it is usually reactive, a case of them “holding the line” against the worst abuses of the Republicans.

blackface, Democratic Party, Hypocrisy, ralph northam

Thomas Jefferson: Father of White Supremacy

August 17, 2014 • Media Analysis, Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Society and Culture


When you hear the name Thomas Jefferson, it is likely followed by “founding father”, “hero”, “patriot”, and other such reverent terms. But he should also be considered one of the Founding Fathers of white supremacy. Nearly every white supremacist idea, claim, or rationale, can be found in Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia…

Rethinking History, Thomas Jefferson, White Supremacy

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