Kalorama is where racist housing covenants used to keep the neighborhood clean of Black folks, except when we were scrubbing toilets and polishing silver. A place so historically exclusive that even the air thinks it’s better than you. Welp… now it smells like smoke.
A controlled burn to cleanses the land. These historic relics that were built off stolen labor and bad energy are being repossessed by the spirits.
I don’t know who lit the match, but I know who fanned the wind. Keep going, ancestors. There’s plenty more kindling where that came from.
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Investigation? Disciplinary actions, punishment?
I’m surprised the opposite isn’t the response.
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I wouldn’t be shocked to see those who created and shared the memes invited to photo ops with Hegseth and 
at some point in the future. It’s their usual DARVO reaction to racism, and it’s fuel for their base.
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If there are others… Why are they still 
standing 
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Some of you might be familiar with Olayemi Olurin from the youtubes (you can find all her channels at that link, if you’re not)… she’s got an article out in Teen Vogue…
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Oh, I am familiar.
The following video is her righteously pissed off take at Black folks who actually hate women (especially Black women) and constantly cape for the Black men who are known predators and abusers:
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Yeah, she’s great! 
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Her ire and vexation reflect my own:
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Summed up.: The supremacist story is an unsustainable string of lies that have been made truly real at the level of state power and popular belief, while the story of universal liberty is a truth that has never been fully believed or actualized.
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Gotta think the MAGAts will do their best to scuttle this. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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I have not had time to watch this yet, but it seems very interesting!
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Charles M. Blow was on CBS Sunday Morning, discussing Juneteenth and erasure of Black History:
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Black elders aren’t reacting to Trumpism as if it’s a new threat. They’re reacting to it like a return. The slogans are different. The tech is fancier. But the menace feels identical. This isn’t abstract for them. It’s embodied. It lives in their bones and blood pressure. Trump doesn’t just remind them of Jim Crow. He is Jim Crow, reborn in a musty red hat.
She thinks the parade is cover. That white supremacists are going to treat it like open season on Black neighborhoods.
This is a woman who was crowned Miss A&T back when being a poised, brilliant Black college student was itself a radical act. Her husband was president of two HBCUs. She was in grad school at Jackson State in 1970, the night white cops fired hundreds of rounds into a women’s dormitory. She knows people who were lynched or were “run out of the South,” as the elders say.
Now, as she approaches the sunset of her life, all those memories she tried to keep folded neatly in the back of her mind have come rushing to the surface, vivid and untamed. She talks incessantly about lynchings like they happened last week. She asks me questions like:
“Do you have gas or electric at your house?”
“Electric.”
“Good. Because you know they can blow up entire Black neighborhoods through the gas lines.”
Black elders aren’t reacting to Trumpism as if it’s a new threat. They’re reacting to it like a return. The slogans are different. The tech is fancier. But the menace feels identical. This isn’t abstract for them. It’s embodied. It lives in their bones and blood pressure. Trump doesn’t just remind them of Jim Crow. He is Jim Crow, reborn in a musty red hat.
What we’re witnessing is generational PTSD triggered in real time. These Black elders are people whose nervous systems were trained to flinch at sirens and white laughter. Who were taught to read the temperature of a room, a street, a nation, for signs of violence hiding in plain sight. Trump’s presence in the White House doesn’t just offend their politics, it reanimates their terror.
So when my Village Mama says she’s sleeping in a hotel away from Black neighborhoods during the Nazi parade, I don’t dismiss it as old-folks’ paranoia.
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