Art is resistance.
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Collectively, life for Black Americans in the United States can never be described as idyllic or easy.
Pervasive systemic inequalities, institutional racism, police brutality and murder, and anti-Black discrimination continues to be the bane of Black people’s existence in America.
It has been several years since the election of Donald Trump to the highest elected office in the United States, an event unveiling to the world the lie of American exceptionalism — both moral and societal.
White nationalists, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and right-wing conservatives boldly display their plumages of hate, xenophobia, misogyny and intolerance in an effort to oppress and intimidate those they have othered in their ideologies; Republican politicians sympathetic to white nationalism and white supremacy hold powerful positions in legislature on Capitol Hill.
Let’s not mention the countless think pieces and editorials attempting to gaslight Black people into denying the truth of our lived experiences.
“America is not a racist country!”