Author Archives: Darien Heard
FollowINTERNALIZED RACISM The response of the “dissed”(disrespected) to physical, institutional, emotional and psychological racism when they categorize and value themselves and their own people by how closely they identify with, compare to, and/or approximate their perpetrator in his “ white value system” and “diss”(disrespect) those who do not comply. BLACK LOVE Ending our […]
Internalized Racism The response of the “dissed” (disadvantaged) to physical, institutional, and psychological racism when they categorize and value themselves and their own people by how closely they identify with compare to and/or approximate their perpetrator in his “white value system” and “diss” (disrespect) those who do not. Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas, the name […]
HERMAN CAIN The people of African descent living in America as a result of the European Slave Trade can and do exhibit traits/characteristics of poor self-esteem – – – they don’t like or value themselves. They have not only been MEASURED by foreign European standards as to intellect, behavior, speech and appearance they also […]
I would like to suggest that Black people do not comprise one happy, accepting, tolerant community. Black people can and often have racists feelings towards other races and probably, most often, the white race. Black people also harbor discriminatory and hateful perceptions about themselves and others within their race instilled and reinforced by preferences afforded […]
This week I am focused on the Occupiers demonstrations. I am struck by how many Americans again feel ignored and disrespected in their own country by “the powers that be, which is now identified as Corporate America.” I am frightened again by the physical force that is being displayed against Americans protesting for their own […]
The concrete/physical “acting out” of fear toward the “dissed” (disrespected) that results in physical harm/death and/or the threat and fear of physical harm/death for the “dissed”(disrespected.) Below is an excerpt from my memoir where I recount the physical racism I encountered when my family moved into an all- white community in Chicago in 1955. It […]
The concrete/physical “acting out” of fear toward the “dissed” (disrespected) that results in physical harm/death and/or the threat and fear of physical harm/death for the “dissed”(disrespected.) Emmitt Till (excerpt from my memoir) When I was very young my grandmother took me on a long bus ride from her house in the Woodlawn […]
The concrete/physical “acting out” of fear/hate toward the “dissed” (disrespected) that results in physical harm/death and/or the threat and fear of physical harm/death for the “dissed” disrespected.) Physical racism is probably one of the easiest and most obvious forms of racism to detect. It is a physical attack with the ominous threat of harm and […]
Barack Hussein Obama Americans chose by a majority vote through a democratic election to give America its first African American President. One of the African American President’s parents was African, directly from Kenya without the “legacy” of the transatlantic cruise on a slave ship. He met him once during a month long visit in Hawaii. […]
Only Stupid or Something More? The abuse of power, racial profiling, and all is STUPID AND “ACTING STUPIDLY!” The African American NFL player in Texas on March 27, 2009 detained in the hospital emergency parking lot for a traffic ticket by a white cop while trying unsuccessfully to get to his mother’s dying bedside with […]