On Cities Church, ICE, and a Toxic Situationship

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, and Jamael Lydell Lundy were arrested this morning at the direction of y'all's president's Attorney General Pam Bondi. This is not even a week after the arrests of Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and William Kelly. All of this is said to be connected to the Cities Church protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which this regime/administration has painted as "an act of domestic terrorism." What actually happened was a protest of the Church's leadership after it was discovered that the Church's pastor, David Easterwood, is the acting field director of the Minnesota branch of the taxpayer-funded slave-catcher domestic terrorist group ICE.

Now, mind you, not one act of violence happened in Cities Church during that protest. Those who entered the building violated no laws. They went in to hold the pastor of the Church - the man who was supposedly leading this congregation - accountable for being an ICE director and selling out members of the community he's supposed to be serving.

Now, some of you may see this protest as a violation of the place of worship. Sure. Why not? I mean, I hope you look at all of the violations of mosques and synagogues in this country by xenophobic "Homeland Security" agents in the same way you're viewing this act of protest in a Western culture-driven church building, but I'm going to guess most folx who view this as a "violation" aren't exactly the most accepting. Take that as you will.

Regardless, seven people have been arrested as "ring leaders" of a "violent coordinated attack", six of whom are Black and two of whom are journalists.

Again, no crime was committed. But we live in a horrifically toxic situationship where the federal government can paint anything as a crime and waste taxpayer dollars trying to prosecute people, especially Black and Brown people, on trumped-up and ridiculous charges ad nauseam if people of pallor who support the white supremacist regime and its leaders are "in danger" of being held accountable for their hatred. I mean, they tried to prosecute Letitia James three times for holding y'all's president accountable for his actions, and they would've tried a fourth time if they weren't shut down by the courts.

And guess what? There's not a lot of media coverage around the optics of this moment or the arrests of respected journalists. Why?

Because people of pallor only care about the optics when journalists of pallor are arrested.

People of pallor only step in when they don't fear for their comfort and well-being.

People of pallor speak up about hate when they can, then move on without giving it another thought.

As for the rest of us? The Black and Brown? The melanated?

I suppose it's just another Friday in the United States, one where we find ourselves sharing information the media and the masses are avoiding, while being tired of asking those who are willfully asleep or faking it to wake up.

Let us know when y'all are done sleeping.

On Slave Catchers, Whiteness Killing Whiteness, Movements and Moments

TW: mentions of murder, harassment, abuse, and domestic terrorism.

Two people of pallor, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, have been murdered by modern-day slave catchers in just a little over two weeks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a racist podcaster put them on y’all’s president’s radar for no substantiated reason whatsoever.

Modern-day slave catchers have murdered two people of pallor. The U.S. government has given these violent and hateful goons carte blanche to do whatever they want to anyone they please, including anyone legally recording and protesting their domestic terrorism spree.

Two people of pallor, folx who were technically “on paper” U.S. citizens for all intents and purposes (as messy as those words are), were murdered by modern-day slave catchers just three weeks into 2026. This is after 33 recorded ICE-related deaths in 2025 and countless people battered, bloodied, harassed, and terrorized by said modern-day slave catchers:

23 Jan — Genry Ruiz Guillén — 29, Honduran man — Died after experiencing breathing distress; collapsed and died at a hospital in Florida

29 Jan — Serawit Gezahegn Dejene — 45, Ethiopian man — Died after reported fatigue and elevated heart rate; possible lymphoma; died at hospital in Arizona

20 Feb — Maksym Chernyak — 44, Ukrainian man — Died from brain bleeding following stroke symptoms after a delayed medical response

23 Feb — Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez — 44, Dominican man — Died after reporting leg pain; cause of death not disclosed

8 Apr — Brayan Garzón-Rayo — 27, Colombian man — Apparent suicide while detained; official cause not confirmed by ICE

16 Apr — Nhon Ngoc Nguyen — 55, Vietnamese man — Died of acute pneumonia after detention despite known cognitive decline

25 Apr — Marie Ange Blaise — 44, Haitian woman — Died after reporting chest pain and abdominal cramps; medical care allegedly denied; cause disputed

5 May — Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado — 68, Mexican man — Died during transport after becoming unresponsive with severe hypertension

7 Jun — Jesus Molina-Veya — 45, Mexican man — Found unresponsive in cell; ICE labeled death an apparent suicide

23 Jun — Johnny Noviello — 49, Canadian man — Found unresponsive; cause of death under investigation

26 Jun — Isidro Pérez — 75, Cuban man — Died at hospital after weeks in ICE custody; cause undetermined

19 Jul — Tien Xuan Phan — 55, Vietnamese man — Died after seizures and vomiting; cause under investigation

5 Aug — Chaofeng Ge — 32, Chinese man — Died by suicide four days after entering ICE custody

31 Aug — Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas — 32, Mexican man — Died after contracting COVID-19 in detention; cause under investigation

8 Sep — Oscar Rascon Duarte — 58, Mexican man — Died while receiving long-term medical care for Alzheimer’s, cancer, and hepatitis C

18 Sep — Santos Banegas Reyes — 42, Honduran man — Found not breathing in cell; preliminary cause of liver failure; family disputes findings

22 Sep — Ismael Ayala-Uribe — 39, Mexican man — Died after falling ill in detention; cause under investigation

24 Sep — Norlan Guzman-Fuentes — 37, Salvadoran man — Killed when a gunman opened fire at an ICE field office

29 Sep — Miguel Ángel García Medina — 31, Mexican man — Shot while shackled in an ICE transport van; died days later from gunshot wounds

29 Sep — Huabing Xie — Chinese person — Died after seizure-like episode; became unresponsive; died at the hospital

4 Oct — Leo Cruz-Silva — 34, Mexican man — Apparent suicide while detained in county jail

11 Oct — Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh — 67, Jordanian man — Died after high fever and collapse; preliminary cause cardiac arrest

23 Oct — Josué Castro Rivera — 25, Honduran man — Killed after fleeing ICE agents and being struck by traffic

23 Oct — Gabriel Garcia Aviles — 54, Mexican man — Died after sudden illness in detention; ICE claims natural causes; family disputes

25 Oct — Kai Yin Wong — 63, Chinese man — Died from complications following heart failure and pneumonia

3 Dec — Francisco Gaspar-Andrés — 48, Guatemalan man — Died from kidney and liver failure after prolonged detention and illness

5 Dec — Pete Sumalo Montejo — 72, Filipino man — Died from septic shock and pneumonia

6 Dec — Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani — 48, Pakistani man — Died of reported natural causes amid chronic illness

12 Dec — Jean Wilson Brutus — 41, Haitian man — Died one day after detention; ICE claims natural causes

14 Dec — Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir — 46, Eritrean man — Died of medical distress after seeking emergency court relief

14 Dec — Delvin Francisco Rodriguez — 39, Nicaraguan man — Died after cardiac arrest following months in detention

15 Dec — Nenko Stanev Gantchev — 56, Bulgarian man — Found unresponsive in cell; cause under investigation

31 Dec — Keith Porter — Black American Man —Killed by an off-duty ICE agent

And yet y’all’s president hasn’t been impeached, the 25th amendment hasn’t been invoked. Neither the House nor the Senate will do anything other than chastise protestors and the citizenry, offer hopes and prayers, and say things like, “We need to do better” or “This is unfortunate, but these agents did what they had to do.” Why?

Because all of this that is happening and will continue to happen is white supremacy in action, and while some people of pallor are starting to get it, the issue is SOMEHOW Y’ALL ARE JUST STARTING TO GET IT BECAUSE Y’ALL ARE STILL SHOCKED THAT THE SLAVE-CATCHERS WILL KILL YOU TOO IF YOU OPPOSE WHITE SUPREMACY.

A.K.A.: history repeating itself. I mean, have y’all not heard of people like John Brown?

Meanwhile, what about the other people of pallor who aren’t somehow shocked, dismayed, and driven to finally stand up and fight?

Hiding in the recesses of their privilege and comfort, or being A-OK with white supremacist domestic terrorism as long as it ain’t near their city or neighborhood.

Is it a good thing that some people of pallor are finally getting it? Yes. Long overdue, but yes. But somehow, after all of this, y’all are still in the minority within your own race, and it is absolutely mind-boggling to witness.

So, how many more people of pallor trying to stand up against white supremacy are going to die this time around in the rinse-and-repeat that is U.S. history for people of pallor to finally get that we’re ALL in danger and that the oppressors will happily oppress all of us to achieve white supremacist ideology?

If history repeats itself, as it’s apt to do in Western culture, there will never be a number that will truly tip the scale for people of pallor, even when whiteness openly kills whiteness.

This is why, in a moment that should usher in a collective uprising and some form of nationwide unity, we are just stuck in another moment where whiteness will need to be saved from itself by those in the most danger.

A.K.A. just another day in the United States of America.

On Genocidal Holidays, Pallor Fragility, and Willful Ignorance

I haven't wished people a "Happy Thanksgiving" for years. I don't think this federal holiday deserves well-wishes for obvious (terroristic, white supremacist, big colonizer energy) reasons. Instead, when people who celebrate the holiday wish me a Happy Thanksgiving or ask me what I'm doing for the holiday, I state that I don't observe the holiday - no extra context or nothing, because I expect most adults to get it without me spelling it out. I then mention that I hope they're celebrating this holiday with intentionality and an understanding of the historical context of the holiday and its branding.

And whew, y'all.

People of pallor do not like it when I say that. Not one bit.

You should see their reactions, y'all. They either say something like, "Well, I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving anyway, Pharoah" with that Karen/Kevin energy with their face all contorted with derision or find a way to get away from me as soon as possible and end the conversation they initiated. And it's funny to me that they do this, because it proves that many people of pallor can only exist and operate in a space that caters to them willingly ignoring how harmful so many things in pallor culture, society, and history really are.

You know you can have some turkey on Thursday with your family while acknowledging how funky Thanksgiving as a holiday and concept really is, right? It doesn't have to take away from the meal.

You can be thankful for the blessings you have while also having the fortitude to digest and understand history and educate others on how harmful this week's festivities can be for Native and Indigenous communities and tribes.

It doesn't have to be one or the other.

Knowledge and empathy should always trump feeling cozy in ignorance.

Just sayin'.

And most of y'all's turkeys be dry anyway, so is being willfully ignorant and eatin' unmoisturized meat worth it?

On Seeking Forgiveness and Being Undeserving Of It

It's funny how people didn't care that their vote would increase the cost of or outright eliminate healthcare options, terrorize communities with masked bootleg police and the U.S. military, devastate the job market, increase the cost of living, and dismantle and eliminate food assistance programs and other social services for millions of people because they somehow thought that Black folx, Brown folx, Indigenous folx, trans folx, and immigrants would be the only people harmed...until they found themselves also being hurt because, you know, all of the things mentioned above impact everyone and not just a couple of communities voters felt were expendable and disposable.

It's also funny how these same voters begged and pleaded like Keith Sweat for their president to save them for months on end, only to realize late last month that they would not be saved because their president had essentially used them to increase his wealth and power.

Hilarious.

Now, suddenly, it's y'all begging forgiveness on TikTok and Instagram for "mistakenly" voting for y'all's president (some of y'all in the last three presidential elections) and putting us in this autocracy.

Now it’s, "I made a mistake" and "We have to stick together."

Y'all can miss me with all of that.

I can care about you as a person, even if you don't care about me and mine, because I don't want to see anyone hurting and struggling. I'm a humanist and an empathic being. Even if you hate me, I want you to be okay. But let's keep it 100: you did not make a mistake. You knew what you were doing. All of you did. So nah, we are not "sticking together." I do not forgive, and I definitely will not forget.

Y'all need to learn that empathy only goes so far.

I do not have it in me to forgive you for willingly hoping others would suffer so you could thrive under a hateful regime. And I know I'm not the only one feeling this way.

Y'all expect people you harm to forgive you because you live in a country where white supremacy has trained y'all to abuse others and expect forgiveness. It ain't happenin' this time, and a bunch of y'all are starting to see this, and you're unraveling. A part of me feels sorry for you, for your despair. But it's a small part, because y'all have made it very clear that this was supposed to be your "survival of the fittest" moment and you're realizing that a whole bunch of y'all ain't the fittest. And knowing that probably sucks. But...well...

I hope that you survive what you've inflicted on all of us, because that's what I want for everyone. And most of y'all will survive because of the work and community programs created and led by the people you were hoping would be harmed by all of this. But that's all that you'll get from me, and all you should get from them. That's more than enough. And if you have a problem with hearing that?

Better go and embrace some of that greatness you voted for to keep you fed and wealthy while "liberals" decide whether to help y'all at all.

On Candace, Anti-Blackness, Self-Hatred, and Begging for the Hand of the Massa

What’s always wild to me about Black folx who are so stuck in anti-Blackness, self-hatred, and white supremacist ideology is that they spend their entire lives hoping, praying, that people of pallor will care about them and give them the head pats and validation that they so desperately yearn for, for the willingness to hate and help oppress their own people.

These Black folx never receive the recognition they believe they deserve from whiteness for participating in harming their own people, because they never fully comprehend that they are tools of the master, discarded by whiteness once they’ve served their purpose. They ultimately find themselves with nowhere to go, isolated from their own people, with no other person or societal institution of pallor interested in taking them in because they’ve been drained of their perceived usefulness and have burned every possible bridge to support and care they once had. When this happens, they, of course, try to crawl back to the Black collective, hoping we’ll forgive and forget. Suddenly, they’re “Black again,” trying to endear themselves to the Black collective, adopting or re-adopting AAVE. Suddenly, we’re their brothers and sisters again! They know how it feels to be “held down by the man!” So, after they “prove themselves” with a few phrases and colloquialisms, they believe Black folx should forgive them, let them come back in from the cold, and invite ‘em back to the cookout.

Instead, the Black collective ignores their asses and leaves ’em out there in the streets alone because they’ve proven they cannot be trusted to take care of Blackness - ours or even their own.

So, defeated, they crawl back to whiteness, living on the outskirts of white supremacy, hoping they’ll do or say the right thing that will once again get them the comfort of whiteness that they ultimately yearn for. They do things like cry and have an online, videotaped breakdown over not being invited to the memorial service of a white supremacist bigot that they buddied up to for years, even while said white supremacist bigot spent years openly and happily talking about how he believed Black women were “inferior” and “lacked the brain power” to do anything other than procreate. And after all that hootin’ and hollerin’ and carryin’ on?

They still find themselves with no invite, on the outside looking in, hoping that one day the master will let them back on the plantation or Black folx will let them back in out of pity.

That one day never comes.

What a wild existence.

Sh-- wouldn’t happen to me, though.

[Image description: A group of Black people laughing. Above them are the words, “The Black Collective’s reaction to Candace Owens being upset that she wasn’t invited to Charlie Kirk’s memorial service.”]

Image description: A group of Black people laughing. Above them are the words, “The Black Collective’s reaction to Candace Owens being upset that she wasn’t invited to Charlie Kirk’s memorial service.”