Before we get into what this article is really about, let’s get things rolling with a simple pop quiz. Would you happen to know who the first girl to pitch her team’s way to a win in the Little League World Series was...
Author - Myles Walker
Myles Walker
Diversity Is Divisive?
On September 22, 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order focused on “combating race and sex stereotyping” in federal workplaces and the U.S. military. The order bemoaned the “malign” and “destructive”...
New Year, No Fear
In this third year of plague and pandemonium, many of us are asking, “When will it end?” Vaccine rollouts, periodically falling case counts, and the specious prospects of “stopping the spread,”...
“Love’s in Need of Love Today”
As the inimitable Stevie Wonder sang in 1976, “love’s in need of love today,” and especially so. On the heels of a classic white supremacist American presidency rivaling those of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson, hate...
“You Can’t Say Anything Anymore”
Dave Chappelle, a comedian some consider to be the greatest of all time, has made a career out of controversy. Across his thirty-year career, he’s demonstrated—through his boldly irreverent stand-up, the acclaimed...
I’m Not Overreacting, You Are
On several occasions I have heard it suggested that Americans of color, particularly Black Americans, tend to “overreact” when lamenting the state of race relations. It is said that they fail to acknowledge progress...
Fake News: The TAPS Act
The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction. The names of the characters within are fictitious. The National Association for the Advancement of All People, or the NAAAP, declared Saturday...
Too Interesting to Bear
In his 1957 lecture “Create Dangerously,” Nobel Prize-winning writer and philosopher Albert Camus spoke of a wise man who “always used to ask the divinity in his prayers to be so kind as to spare him from living in an...
The Problem of Privilege
On many occasions, I have heard American people of color suggest that white privilege and those who deny its existence are two major obstacles in the path to justice and equality. White privilege by itself—the perennial...
Politics Are Not the Problem
Because of last year’s election results, it can be inferred that the majority of residents in 25 of 50 states believe that diversity trainings and the study of institutional racism constitute “Radical Left,” anti...
Jazz, Love, and Astral Projection
When Chris Rock, pontificating at Kanye West’s ye listening party at West’s ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, claimed that “hip-hop music is the first artform created by free Black men,” he was right, so long as we...
Reflections on My First Federally Recognized Juneteenth
A few days ago, an Uber driver I had on the way home from work told me that “The older you get, the more your doctor tells you to laugh—so I laugh a lot!” It was the eighteenth of June. I had learned earlier that the...
The Conservative War Against History
What does it say about the state of American politics that over four months after the end of the previous presidential administration, which was panned internationally, brought for the first time ever to two separate...
Happy, but Heedful
In “A Treatise on Pessimism” from December, I said of a recent police murder: “The timing of this murder seems almost by design as if [the officer] and company wanted to reassure all who were drunk on the...
