"The Unbearable Truth... Fear Eats The Soul"

Monday, February 9, 2026

"The Truth About Love..."

True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

THICH NHAT HANH

"The Truth About Black History Month..."

On Feb. 8, 1968, three black students were killed and 28 wounded as state troopers opened fire on student demonstrators on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites-only bowling alley. The event would become known as the Orangeburg Massacre. Above, the contorted body of 17 year old high school student, Delano Middleton, a peaceful protester, lies mortally wounded and literally under the heel of his "lawful oppressors." This is the truth about black history in America.

Why am I remembering this today...

Some have questioned why black people have been relatively quiet about what's going on with ICE... I can't speak for everyone, but as for myself, we might be visibly absent, but we're not being quiet -- we're being careful. We're resisting and we're supporting our immigrant brothers and sisters when and how we can... But we also know this is particularly different than anything we've seen before.

Maybe other's won't say it, but we saw Renee Good's and Alex Pretti's white privilege completely ignored and it was frankly shocking to us. We're all too accustomed to black and brown civil rights being ignored and our lives being taken without any repercussions, but what we are witnessing now is something frighteningly new.

As we've always been, black people are allied to the cause of freedom and justice for all, but we know what world we're living in right now, for us this is Déjà vu. Trump's ape video was merely the latest poignant reminder of exactly what he thinks of us. We know that his assault on DEI was just the beginning of what he has in store for us.

"Fear Eats the Soul"