By - Kokayi Nosakhere Let’s use our historical imagination. It’s like a thought experiment; an intellectual exercise. I make this invitation in order to lower the emotional charge, because the subject matter is race. Since we now live under an open white supremacy, here in the Second Trump Administration, I am conscious of how sensitive those who live in white bodies are about their newly experienced characteristic of self: race. As a Black man living inside the United States of America, I have to deal with race on a regular basis. I do not have the experience of our society being a meritocracy. It is a racial caste system. Any time I make a plan for myself, to be successful, I have to take into account the racial factor. Meaning, I ask myself how the European Americans I encounter are going to act towards me. Achieving a successful outcome is completely dependent on managing their emotions and intellectual respons...
